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Closterium acutum
caption
Closterium acutum (Chlorophyta, Desmidiales): also common in Lake Kinneret, but doesn’t form blooms like C. aciculare. Note typical moon-shape and two protoplasts on both sides of the central nucleus.
author
aalster and tzohary
copyright
A Alster & T Zohary, Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, IOLR
observation details
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image notes
Photo taken with an Olympus BX50 Microscope equipped with DIC optics and PixeLink digital camera, mag. X100
