Metromonas simplex (Griessmann) Larsen & Patterson, 1990
Metromonas simplex
Cell in feeding position (PC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Metromonas simplex
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Cell in feeding position (PC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238634
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- Dyntaxa ID: 238634
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- With a characteristic motion and often with one long and one short flagellum
- Other remarks
- It can feed on Hemiselmis sp. in culture. Associated with surfaces
Distribution: Widely - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- length 3-8 µm
- Literature
- Grießmann, K. 1913. Über marine flagellaten. Archiven für Protistenkunde/Protozoen, Algen, Pilzen., 32: 1-78.
Larsen, J. & Patterson, D. J. 1990. Some flagellates (Protista) from tropical marine sediments. J. Nat. Hist. 24: 801-937.
Vørs, N. 1992a. Heterotrofe protister (ekskl. dinoflagellater, loricabærende choanoflagellater og ciliater). In: (Thomsen eds.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, pp. 195-250.
Vørs, N. 1992b. Heterotrophic amoebae, flagellates and heliozoa from the Tvärminne area, Gulf of Finland, in 1988-1990. Ophelia. 36: 1-109.