Corisphaera gracilis Kamptner, 1937
Corisphaera gracilis
A = A living cell with flagella and haptonema (=arrow), (arrowhead=stomatal coccolith) (DIC); B = Dry preparation of a coccolith case , (DIC); C = An eroded coccolith case (SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Corisphaera gracilis
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = A living cell with flagella and haptonema (=arrow), (arrowhead=stomatal coccolith) (DIC); B = Dry preparation of a coccolith case , (DIC); C = An eroded coccolith case (SEM)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 236960
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 56429
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 236960
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Diameter = 7-9,5 µm, zygolith = 1,4 X 1,0 µm
- Literature
- Gaarder, K. 1962. Electron microscope studies on holococcolithophorids. Nytt Mag. Bot.10: 35-51.
""Heimdal, B. & Gaarder, K. 1980. Coccolithophorids from the northern part of the eastern central Atlantic. I. Holococcolithophorids. """"Meteor"""" Forsch.-Ergebnisse. 32: 1-14.""
Kamptner, E. 1937. Neue und bemerkensverte Coccolithineen aus dem Mittelmeer. Archiv für Protistenkunde. 89: 279-316.
Kamptner, E. 1941. Die Coccolithineen der Südwestküste von Istrien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 51: 54-149.