Triceratium foveatum, WA Firth

Triceratium foveatum

Triceratium foveatum from Springfield, Barbados. Single, slightly broken, example on the slide. Prepared by WA Firth. Olympus BHB microscope using 450nm LED light. 63x Leitz Pl Apo NA 1.40 objective, oil immersion. Olympus Aplanat Achromat condenser, oil immersion, oblique lighting. 2.5x Nikon CF PL photoeyepiece. Monochrome converted Nikon d850 camera. 15 images stacked in Zerene (Pmax). Accepted name Entogoniopsis foveata as discussed in Jakub Witkowski, Patricia A. Sims, Nina I. Strelnikova & David M. Williams, “Entogoniopsis gen. nov. and Trilamina gen. nov. (Bacillariophyta): a survey of multipolar pseudocellate diatoms with internal costae, including comments on the genus Sheshukovia Gleser”, (Phytotaxa 209), 89 pp, Figures 179-192, available here.