Hi Friends,
I found this sample(which is attached) along with the phytoplankton samples collected. Suggest me weather its a kind of plankton or some other thing. If its a plankton help me to identify its name.
I agree with Sai and Arindam but the image is not clear enough to be sure
May be a cycloid scale of fish.
But more informations about your sample would be usefull.
It sims to be a little fish scales. In ani case it's not a diatom cell (Bacillariophyta) or any group of microalgae.
I am fairly sure that it is a cycloid fish scale, as others have suggested. We frequently encounter them in plankton-net samples. They (1) get knocked off of fish that are caught by the plankton net and (2) exist in sediment largely as the result of predation events; sedimented scales may be easily re-suspended into the water column, where they may be collected by plankton nets.
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