A new algae site has seen the light: Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland.
Looks nice and solid. Much information about the morphology and very nice pictures. Major part of them clear black and white photos of prepared, cleaned frustules. I would have expected more photos with chloroplasts though, knowing Eileen Cox is involved. She did write a whole book back in 1996 about the inner life of the diatoms - giving us algae counters valuable information on how to use chloroplasts in identifying diatoms in our chloroplast containing samples.
At the moment there is almost 200 records and...
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