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BIOTA
(living things)
MONERA
(prokaryotes)
CYANOPHYTA
(cyanobacteria, blue-green "algae")
Gloeotrichia echinulata
(a cyanobacterium)
Record
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Gloeotrichia echinulata (a cyanobacterium)

Date: 27 August 2004
Location: Mid-west Yorkshire, England
Record Summary: floating in water in vast abundance
Identification Notes: Heterocyst: 11.5µm diam.
Trichome cells barrel-shaped.

Images etc

microscope photograph Colonies - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Colonies - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Colonies - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Colony - magnified 500 by 366 pixels
microscope photograph Colony - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Colony - squashed - heterocysts in central area - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Colony - squashed - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Colony - squashed - trichomes - bases - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Colony - squashed - trichomes - bases - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Trichomes - bases - magnified 500 by 350 pixels
microscope photograph Trichomes - distal ends - magnified 500 by 333 pixels

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