Freshwater Algae from Kindrogan Pond 2001

Kindrogan Pond Periphyton

Kindrogan pond is near the Kindrogan field centre in Perthshire:

This page shows periphytic algae collected on slides exposed in the pond for 24 hours then grown in filtered pond water for ~ 6 weeks.
Algae from the Kindrogan area in 2003 can be seen here.

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Aphanocapsa
Asterococcus
Bulbochaete
Coleochaete 
 disc-like filamentous form.   note the sheathed bases to the setae (arrowed)
Didymosphenia geminata
 Bacillariophyceae:-two cells seen in typical girdle view
      a single empty frustule in valve view 
Gloeocystis 
  note the concentric mucilage; no pseudochaetae
Oligochaetophora
           concentric mucilage sheaths + 2 unbranched setae per cell, not visible in close-up
Schizochlamydella
       cells are surrounded by fragments of old mother cell wall within a colonial mucilage
 



 

Kindrogan 2003 samples

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