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Genus: Gomphonema
Found near the base of cattails in a shallow pond in rural SW Pennsylvania.
Spotted on Dec 6, 2011
Submitted on Dec 26, 2011
4 Comments
Clement ... as you can see SFrazier beat me to it. This is very much a diatom.
Jgorneau ... Requisite #1 is a microscope; the magnification on this image was about 800X.
http://craticula.ncl.ac.uk/EADiatomKey/h... ?
are you sure its a diatom? looks more like a rotifer to me
How can you take pictures like this?