DISCOVER PLANKTON

Key to identify plankton species from Greifensee, based on the underwater images.

The actual images from the underwater microscope deployed in Greifensee can be found under Latest Data

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phyto cam – 5x magnification

cyanobacteria

  • Dolichospermum sp
  • Coleosphaerium sp
  • Chroococcus sp
  • Merismopedium
  • Planktothrix rubescens
  • Microcystis aeruginosa like
  • Microcystis wesenbergii like

chrysophytes

  • Mallomonas (caudata or acaroides)
  • Mallomonas akrokomos
  • Synura sp.
  • Uroglena volvox
  • Dinobryon sp

diatoms

  • AUlacoseira/Melosira
  • Centric diatom aggregate
  • Centric diatom
  • Tabellaria sp
  • Synedra cyclopum colony
  • Pennate diatom
  • Asterionella formosa
  • Fragillaria crotonensis

dinoflagellates

  • Peridinium sp
  • Peridinium willei
  • Gymnodinium sp.
  • Ceratium hirundinella

cryptophytes

  • Cryptomonas sp
  • Rhodomonas sp
  • Cryptomonas sp
  • Cryptomonas sp

green algae

  • Tetraedron minimum
  • Scenedesmus sp.
  • Planktosphaer gelatinosa
  • Phacotus (lenticularis)
  • Pandorina sp.
  • Pediastrum sp.
  • Gonium sp
  • Elakotothrix galatinosa
  • Hormodium sp
  • Coelastrum reticulatum

desmids

  • Staurastrum sp
  • Staurastrum sp
  • Cosmarium depressum var. planctonicum
  • Closterium sp
  • Closterium sp

ciliates

  • Coleps sp.
  • Ciliate
  • Ciliate
  • Tintinnopsis sp
  • Vorticella sp
  • Didinium sp
  • Strombidium sp.
  • Tintinidium sp
  • Paradileptus elephantinus

rotifers

  • Ascomorpha sp
  • Gastropus sp
  • Synchaeta sp
  • Conochillus sp
  • Trichocerca sp
  • Polyarthra sp
  • Keratella quadrata
  • Keratella cochlearis
  • Kellicottia sp.

zooplankton

  • Diaphanosoma brachyurum
  • Bosmina longirostris
  • Nauplius (juvenile copepod)
  • Cyclopoid copepod

ZOO CAM – 0.5X MAGNIFICATION

CLADOCERA

  • Daphnia sp
  • Daphnia sp
  • Daphnia sp
  • Daphnia sp
  • Bosmina longirostris
  • Bosmina longirostris
  • Bosmina longirostris
  • Bosmina longirostris
  • Diaphanosoma brachyurus
  • Diaphanosoma brachyurus
  • Diaphanosoma brachyurus
  • Diaphanosoma brachyurus
  • Leptodora kindtii
  • Leptodora kindtii
  • Leptodora kindtii
  • Leptodora kindtii

copepods

  • Cyclopoid copepod
  • Cyclopoid copepod
  • Cyclopoid copepod
  • Cyclopoid copepod with eggs
  • Cyclopoid copepod with eggs and epiphytes
  • Cyclopoid with synedra cyclopum
  • Copepodit (juvenil copepod)
  • Eudiaptomus sp
  • Eudiaptomus sp
  • Eudiaptomus sp with eggs
  • juvenil Eudiaptomus sp
  • Eudiaptomus sp with eggs and epiphytes
  • Eudiaptomus sp with eggs and epiphytes
  • Nauplius
  • Nauplius
  • Nauplius
  • Nauplius
  • Nauplius
  • Nauplius
  • Nauplius

hydra

  • Hydra
  • Hydra
  • Hydra
  • Hydra

chaoborus larvae

  • Chaborus larvae
  • Chaborus larvae

fish

  • Fish
  • Fish
  • Fish
  • Fish
  • Fish

cyanobacteria

  • Cyanobacteria colonial
  • Cyanobacteria colonial
  • Cyanobacteria colonial
  • Aphanizomenon flos-aquae
  • Aphanizomenon flos-aquae

chrysophytes

  • Uroglena volvox
  • Uroglena volvox
  • Dinobryon sp
  • Dinobryon sp
  • Dinobryon sp

diatoms

  • Fragilaria sp
  • Fragilaria sp
  • Fragilaria sp
  • Diatom chain
  • Diatom chain
  • Diatom chain
  • Asterionella formosa
  • Asterionella formosa
  • Asterionella formosa colony – “lake snow”

dinoflagellates

  • Ceratium hirundinella

ciliates

  • Paradileptus sp
  • Paradileptus sp
  • Paradileptus sp
  • Paradileptus sp

rotifers

  • Synchaeta
  • Synchaeta
  • Kellicotia sp
  • Kellicotia sp
  • Trichocerca sp
  • Trichocerca sp
  • Polyarthra sp
  • Polyarthra sp
  • Keratella quadrata
  • Keratella quadrata
  • Keratella cochlearis
  • Keratella cochlearis
  • Brachionus sp
  • Brachionus sp
  • Rotifer
  • Rotifer
  • Asplachna sp
  • Asplachna sp
  • Conochilus sp
  • Conochilus sp
  • Conochilus sp
  • Conochilus sp

heliozoa

  • Heliozoa