BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Coelosphaerium kuetzingianum Nägeli, 1849 (a cyanobacterium)

Date: 20 February 1999
Location: Berks, England
Record Summary: on surface of water forming streaky algal bloom
Identification Notes: Floating algal bloom forming strands on the surface.
Cells: 4.5-5/3-4µm.
Colonies hollow, often compound or with an opening.
Mucilage not visible, even under phase contrast, but strings of mucilage abundant on slide.

Images etc

microscope photograph Cells in colony 4 Kb 187 by 159 pixels
microscope photograph Colonies - close-up 7 Kb 235 by 118 pixels
microscope photograph Colonies 9 Kb 411 by 99 pixels
microscope photograph Colonies 500 by 211 pixels

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