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Triceratium broeckii from Oamaru, New Zealand (spelt as brookei on the slide). Single example on the slide. Prepared by Samuel Meakin. Mounted in Styrax and dated 1930. Olympus BHB microscope using 450nm LED light. Stack of the complete diatom done using a 20x Nikon Plan Apo NA 0.65 objective. Closuep of part of the diatom using a 63x Leitz Pl Apo NA 1.40 objective, oil immersion. Olympus Aplanat Achromat condenser, slightly oblique lighting. 2.5x Nikon CF PL photoeyepiece. Monochrome converted Nikon d850 camera. For the full diatom 24 images were stacked in Zerene (Pmax).