Oblea

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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