Gymnodinium rubrum Kofoid & Swezy
Gymnodinium rubrum
A = Ventral view with sulcus and girdle; B-D = Nucleus in the middle of cell. Observe the thick double nuclear membrane. (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Gymnodinium rubrum
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = Ventral view with sulcus and girdle; B-D = Nucleus in the middle of cell. Observe the thick double nuclear membrane. (BF)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238352
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52375
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238352
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- The nucleus has a characteristic double-membrane
- Other remarks
- The form of the cell is very variable
Distribution: Pacific, Skagerrak, Kattegat - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- length 65-80 (145) µm
- Literature
- Hansen, G. & Larsen, J. 1992. Dinoflagellater i danske farvande. In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, p. 45-155.
Kofoid, C. A. & Swezy, O. 1921. The free-living unarmored dinoflagellates. Mem. Univ. California. 5: 1-562
Schiller, J. 1933. Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae) in monographischer Behandlung. Teil 1. In Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora. 10, III: 617 pp.
