This unicellar Chrysophyte fixes itself with a string of mucilage on a filamentous alga, in this case Tribonema.
Sample from sphagnum pond Dosenmoor near Neumuenster (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany). This image was taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.
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