Halosphaera parkeae Boalch & Mommaerts
Halosphaera parkerae
A = Four non-motile cells (DIC); B = Chloroplasts with starch shells and oil droplets (DIC); C = Large punctations (PC).
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Halosphaera parkerae
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Copyright stamp
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- Dept. of Marine botany, University of Gothenburg
- Contributing organisation
- University of Gothenburg
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = Four non-motile cells (DIC); B = Chloroplasts with starch shells and oil droplets (DIC); C = Large punctations (PC).
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Contrast enhancement
- DIC/Nomarski, Phase contrast
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238979
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 69856
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238979
- Morphology
- The two different punctures of the outer wall
- Other remarks
- It can give the surface water a green oily appearance
- Life form
- Phycoma stage and solitary flagellate
- Size
- Phycoma-stage: f. parkeae diameter=400-550 µm, f. minuta diameter=200-250 µm
- Literature
- Boalch, G. T. & Mommaerts, J.P. 1969. A new punctate species of Halosphaera. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 49: 129-139.
Change History
- 2011-10-24 20:19:18 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Halosphaera parkeae_5.jpg
- 2011-10-24 20:18:05 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Halosphaera parkeae_5.jpg
- 2011-10-24 20:17:24 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Halosphaera parkeae_4.jpg
- 2011-10-24 20:15:37 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Halosphaera parkeae_4.jpg
- 2011-09-26 19:24:44 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Halosphaera parkeae_3.gif
- 2011-09-26 19:23:20 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Halosphaera parkeae_3.gif