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This image provided by Mona Hoppenrath of the phytoplankton diversity group active in the long term ecological research program at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) at Bremerhaven and Helgoland and the Wadden Sea station on the island of Sylt. This material provided by Mona Hoppenrath, Alex Kraberg, Tanya Morozova and David Patterson. Copyright Alfred Wegener Institute, used by license to MBL (micro*scope).
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Bacillaria paxillifera
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Alfred Wegener Institute Phytoplankton
| Description of Bacillaria paxillifera: B. paxillifera is a pennate diatom with a rectangular cell shape that can form colonies with adjacent cells sliding along each other. They can therefore occur as long extended 'chains' or ribbon arrays |
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