The Mystery Diatom Page

These are GIF images. On this page, you can see them individually, or Or, you can see them on one WWW page, but it might take a while to load! Each picture is between 60 and 80 KB!

To save space, these images were scanned at only 72 dpi (typical screen resolution when set at 640x480)

About the diatom

This diatom was found in a coastal environment, the Crystal River Bay of Florida (Gulf Coast)
Diameter is typically about 80-100 u with extremes of 55 and 104.
Striae 9-10 in 10 u.

Individually

An electron micrograph of the outside
An electron micrograph of the inside
An electron micrograph of an outside feature
A light micrograph of the same thing
An electron micrograph of an inside feature
An electron micrograph of the areolae
An electron micrograph of the wall

See them all on one web page!

To find out what it is, you have to get to the bottom of the Diatom home page...

P. Roger Sweets
Biology, Dept., Indiana University
sweets@ucs.indiana.edu