D. leidyi, Vosges, France, 2019
Difflugia leidyi Wailes, 1913
Diagnosis: Shell more or less pyroid, not compressed, with short broad neck; shell composed of an organic material, embedded with quartz particles and diatom frustules, mixed with some yellow, brown and black detritus particles. Median part of the shell ornamented with usually two bended tubular horns, giving it the impression of a Viking helmet.
Dimensions: Wailes (1913): Shell length 92-116 µm.
Ecology: Peat bogs, Sphagnum.
D. leidyi, Sjøforsen NP, Norway, 2023
Height 98 and 116 µm, stacked images – Fochteloërveen, the Netherlands
D. leidyi, Sjøforsen NP, Norway, 2023
Stacked images
Stacked image
Difflugia leidyi, 92 µm and 107 µm long