Bicosta antennigera Moestrup, 1979
Bicosta antennigera
Lorica (dry prepartion) (PC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Bicosta antennigera
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Lorica (dry prepartion) (PC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238097
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- Dyntaxa ID: 238097
- Morphology
- Lorica without transverse costae, anterior spines made of two coastal strips
- Other remarks
Distribution: Arctic, North Atlantic, Skagerrak, Baltic, Pacific, Antarctic- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Lorica length c. 60 µm
- Literature
- Moestrup, Ø. 1979. Identification by electron microscopy of marine nanoplankton from New Zealand, including the description of four new species. N. Z. J. Bot. 17: 61-95.
Thomsen, H. A. 1992b. Loricabærende Chonanoflagellater (Kraveflagellater). In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, p. 157-194.