[taxonomy:genus=Pleurotaenium]
Desmid green alga
Date:
9 Sep 2011, originally collected mid-Aug
Location:
Freshwater fish pond in concrete tank, outside Life Science Lab 7. Walls were covered in filamentous cyanobacteria, and the bottom with fish waste. Water was mostly clear.
Pipetted sample from floc at bottom of tube which has settled after > two weeks
Microscope:
Bright-field with closed condenser aperture.
Camera:
Nikon D7000
Collector:
Brandon Seah
Scale:
20830 pixels/mm = 20.8 pixels/µm (40x)
Description: English: Pleurotaenium sp. collected from a freshwater creek in Brisbane, Australia. Date: 25 October 2019. Source: Own work. Author: Whatwisdom. Camera location27° 56′ 32.5″ S, 153° 09′ 51.71″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-27.942361; 153.164364.
Longitude (deg): -0.8. Latitude (deg): 51.4. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 50' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 30' N. Vice county name: Berks. Vice county no.: 22. Country: England. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: in small pond. Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".
