This detail view of a thallus shows the two cell types of the thallus: one tall axial cell (light, with tubular rhodoplasts) and many little reddish cortical cells with their lenticular rhodoplasts. In the tetrasporangium three cells with their nuclei are visible. The indicates 25 µm.
Collected from Bodden, the brackish waters lying between the isles of Hiddensee and Ruegen (German Baltic Sea). This image was taken using Zeiss Universal with Olympus C7070 CCD camera.
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Wolfgang Bettighofer, www.protisten.de.
