Stictodiscus buryanus, WA Firth

Stictodiscus buryanus

A slide labelled Stictodiscus buryanus from Jérémie, Haiti. Single example on the slide. Prepared by WA Firth. Olympus BHB microscope using 450nm LED light. 40x Leitz Pl Apo NA 1.00 objective, oil immersion. Olympus Aplanat Achromat condenser, oil immersion, oblique lighting. 2.5x Nikon CF PL photoeyepiece. Monochrome converted Nikon d850 camera. 27 images stacked in Zerene (Pmax).

With regards to the name for the diatom this slide, this one doesn’t look exactly the same as the examples on the other slide of S. buryanus I have shared here. Another Stictodiscus which is similar is shown here. So, is this one S. buryanus? At the moment I haven’t seen enough examples to be definitive, so will leave it was labelled for now.