Cosmoeca ventricosa Thomsen in Thomsen & Boonruang, 1984
Cosmoeca ventricosa
Lorica (dry preparation) (PC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Cosmoeca ventricosa
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Lorica (dry preparation) (PC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238110
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- Dyntaxa ID: 238110
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- 3 transverse costae and 9-12 longitudinal. The position of the second transverse costa, interconnections at anterior end, lorica dimensions
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Lorica 23-31 µm high
- Literature
- 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.
Thomsen, H. A. & Boonruang, P. 1984. A light and electron microscopical investigation of loricate choanoflagellates (Choanoflagellida, Acanthoecidae) from the Andaman Sea, SW Thailand: Species of Cosmoeca gen.n. Zool. Scr. 13: 165-181.