Micromanipulated Diatoms - Diatom Shop by Diatom Lab

Microscope slide of one micromanipulated Pennate Diatom (bilaterally symmetric) and one micromanipulated Centric Diatom (radially symmetric). As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 50 Selected mixed (recent - fossil - marine - freshwater) diatoms, micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). EACH DIATOMARIUM is a UNIQUE PIECE of MICROSCOPIC ART, as the Diatom species and the arrangement vary: in fact DIATOM LAB keeps THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT marine / freshwater / recent / fossil / subfossil Diatom Spevcies within the laboratory! Look at the example in dark field illumination on the side. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). EACH DIATOMARIUM is a UNIQUE PIECE of MICROSCOPIC ART, as the Diatom species and the arrangement vary: in fact DIATOM LAB keeps THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT marine / freshwater / recent / fossil / subfossil DIATOM SPECIES within the laboratory! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 16 Selected mixed (recent - fossil - marine - freshwater) diatoms, micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates. EACH DIATOMARIUM is a UNIQUE PIECE of MICROSCOPIC ART, as the Diatom species and the arrangement vary: in fact DIATOM LAB keeps THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT marine / freshwater / recent / fossil / subfossil DIATOM SPECIES within the laboratory! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 selected mixed (recent - fossil - marine - freshwater) diatoms, micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). EACH DIATOMARIUM is a UNIQUE PIECE of MICROSCOPIC ART, as the Diatom species and the arrangement vary: in fact DIATOM LAB keeps THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT marine / freshwater / recent / fossil / subfossil DIATOM SPECIES within the laboratory! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 Very Rare, Micromanipulated Japanese diatoms from Suzu (fossil marine specimens, Lida formation, Miocene), with Species List printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). See example in dark field illumination on the side: this sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 Selected mixed fossil marine diatoms from Inzensky District, RUSSIA (Cretaceous: from 145.5 to 65.5 million years ago, when dinosaurs - such as Tyrannosaurus - where numerous!!!), with Species list printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). Look at the examples on the side: this Russian sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 selected, micromanipulated fossil marine Diatoms from Sisquoc Formation, Lompoc, Ca, USA (Miocene). Among the most beautiful and interesting species we mention: Diploneis gemmata (Greville) Cleve, 1894; Stictodiscus kittonianus Greville 1861; Stictodiscus californicus f. ecostata Grunow in Schmidt et al., 1882; Navicula praetexta f. praetexta Ehrenberg, 1840; Auliscus punctatus Bailey. The species photographed here are an example of those you might find, in fact our samples contain many species (every microscope slide is unique). As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 Selected mixed fossil marine diatoms from DUNKIRK, Maryland, USA (Miocene) with Species list printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). See example in dark field on the side: this sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 Selected mixed fossil marine diatoms from FUR ISLAND, Denmark (Paleogene: from 65.5 million to 23.0 million years ago) with Species list printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). See example in DIC on the side: this sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 selected Micromanipulated fossil marine Diatoms from MODELO FORMATION, California, USA, with Species list printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). See example in dark field illumination on the side: this sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 selected micromanipulated fossil marine diatoms from MORON, SPAIN, with Species List printed on the label ( RARE SAMPLE!). In this laboratory there's the same very rare rock that Ernesto Bellido Caballero used to publish his "Atlas de las diatomeas fósiles de Morón" in 1899. This sample has been carefully cleaned at Diatom Lab and contains about 170 diatom species, including the rare Asteromphalus moronensis (Greville) A.W.F.Schmid; Biddulphia moronensis (Greville) T.V.Desikachary; Euodia gibba var. moronensis Tempère & Peragallo, 1909; Grammatophora moronensis Greville 1863; Actinocyclus hispanicus F.Azpeitia Moros ; Cocconeis moronensis A.W.F.Schmidt; Coscinodiscus ovalis Roper 1858. Micromanipulated in two rows. See example in DIC on the side: this sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 Selected mixe fossil marine diatoms from MORS ISLAND, Denmark (Paleogene: from 65.5 million to 23.0 million years ago) with Species list printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 Selected mixed fossil marine diatoms from OAMARU, NZ (Upper Eocene Epoch: from 37.2 +/- 0.1 To 33.9+/- 0.1 million years ago), with Species list printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). See example in dark field on the side: this sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 20 Micromanipulated Diatoms from Oamaru, NZ with Species list. See example in dark field on the side: this sample contains many more species!. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 2 Very Rare African Diatoms Epithemia ascoidea from Rift Valley, Kenya, mounted in Valve and Girdle view! A very architectural Diatom! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 8 Very Rare, Selected, Micromanipulated fossil freshwater Diatoms from Rift Valley, Kenya, Africa, with Species list printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). See example of the species in DIC on the side: this Very Rare sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 Selected mixed fossil marine diatoms from SAINT-LAURENT-LA-VERNEDE, France (early Miocene), with Species list printed on the label. See example in DIC on the side: this sample contains many more species! Diatoms are micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 Selected mixed fossil marine diatoms from SANTA MONICA, California, USA with Species list printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 6 Selected micromanipulated fossil freshwater diatoms from SANTA FIORA, Tuscany, Italy (Miocene), with Species List printed on the label (EXTREMELY RARE SAMPLE!): the mines have been all walled up - destroyed around 1970!), initially studied by EHRENBERG in the 19th century: see Ehrenberg's drawings (1836) below! Micromanipulated in a row, without duplicates. Freshwater fossil diatoms from Santa Fiora have been initially described in: Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried, Die infusionsthierchen als vollkommene organismen. Ein blick in das tiefere organische leben der natur, Leipzig,L. Voss, 1838. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 14 Micromanipulated fossil diatoms from BRNO, Czech Republic (Age: Langhian) with Species List printed on the label (EXTREMELY RARE SAMPLE!) Micromanipulated rows, without duplicates. Look at the example on the side, in DIC: this sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 7 selected micromanipulated fossil freshwater diatoms from BOLSENA VOLCANO (Vulsini Volcanic District), VT, Italy, with Species List printed on the label (EXTREMELY RARE SAMPLE!). Vulsini Volcanic District is a caldera complex that created some Pleistocene lakes! Micromanipulated in a row, without duplicates. See example in DIC on the side: this sample contains many more species! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

VERY RARE! Microscope slide of Selected, Micromanipulated Surirella biseriata v. ianus v. nov. (more informations on the side) + Surirella biseriata f. constricta + S. biseriata, from a unique, amazing sample collected in Bavarian Forest (Germany). A scientific unicum. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 10 selected mixed (recent - fossil - marine - freshwater) diatoms with SPECIES LIST printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 16 Selected mixed (recent - fossil - marine - freshwater) diatoms with SPECIES LIST printed on the label. Micromanipulated in parallel lines (without duplicates). As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Diatoms with scientific names mounted both in VALVE and GIRDLE VIEW (in the same microscope slide), in this way you can fully appreciate all diatom structures! Please write us the species you prefer: Tetracyclus celatom Okuno (rare!) in valve and girdle view; Stephanogonia danica Grunow (rare!) in valve and girdle view; Anomoeoneis polygramma (Ehrenberg) Cleve 1895 in valve and girdle view; Epithemia turgida (Ehrenberg) Kützing 1844 in valve and girdle view. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Teaching microscope slide of 2 micromanipulated Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg, 1838 with RAPHE valve and RAPHELESS valve [exhibiting a sternum = pseudoraphe]. Cocconeis placentula has a heterovalvar morphology! As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 5 selected, micromanipulated PINNULARIA species, with Species list printed on the label: 1) Pinnularia cardinalis (Ehrenberg) W.Smith; 2) Pinnularia major (Kützing) Rabenhorst; 3) Pinnularia dactylus var. dariana (A.Schmidt) Cleve; 4) Pinnularia nobilis (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg; 5) Pinnularia viridis (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of 6 selected, micromanipulated SURIRELLA species, with Species list printed on the label: 1) Surirella spiralis Kützing; 2) Surirella helvetica Brun; 3) Surirella ovalis Brébisson; 4) Surirella fuellebornii f. subconstricta O.Müller; 5) Surirella utahensis (Grunow) Hanna & Grant; 6) Surirella striatula Turpin. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of selected mixed Diatoms arranged in BIG CIRCLE (approx. diameter 430 µm = 0,43 millimeter). The number of diatoms can vary according to their size and the size of the circle. On request it is possible to obtain arrangements with smaller or larger sizes. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of selected mixed Diatoms arranged in MEDIUM CIRCLE (approx. diameter 350 µm = 0,35 millimeter). The number of diatoms can vary according to their size and the size of the circle. On request it is possible to obtain arrangements with smaller or larger sizes. As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Microscope slide of selected mixed fossil marine Diatoms from Oamaru (NZ) arranged in MEDIUM CIRCLE (approx. diameter 350 µm). As with all our diatom micromanipulations, our proprietary high-refractive-index Diatom Cubed mountant was used for this microscope slide too This mountant is unalterable over time and has an R.I. > 1.7, ensuring maximum optical performance.

Set of 2 Microscope slides that help to VERIFY THE IMPORTANCE OF REFRACTIVE INDEX: one microscope slide contains the micromanipulated diatom Stauroneis phoenicenteron (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg mounted in DIATOM³ (Diatom Cubed) mountant (refractive index > 1.7), the other microscope slide contains the micromanipulated diatom Stauroneis phoenicenteron (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg mounted in Canada balsam (refractive index 1.52, near to that of ordinary glass)