The Coscinodiscus is a salt water diatom in the Atlantic Ocean. The purpose of this blog is exclusively to provide photographs and video footage of this amazing diatom.
Showing posts with label dinoflagellates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dinoflagellates. Show all posts
Coscinodiscus and Mystery Microbe
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The yellow disk is a Coscinodiscus, the purple oval disk is Oblea and the sticklike branch is Thalassionema.
More of the mysterious purple oval disk.
Terri Hathaway wrote:
looks interesting! should be an easy one to identify with its distinctive shape and 2 rows of cilia.Terri
Dr. Morton says that the pink compressed dinoflagellate is Oblea with a super big food vacuole. So neat!!!
Thanks for sharing,
Allison Sill, JHT Inc. Contractor
Program Coordinator
Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
http://www.chbr.noaa.gov/PMN/
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