Paulinella ovalis (A.Wulff) P.W.Johnson, Hargraves & Sieburth
Paulinella ovalis
Tests (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Paulinella ovalis
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Tests (DIC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238609
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- Dyntaxa ID: 238609
- Morphology
- Si scales in five transversely circumferential columns, pseudopod filose. Ingest Synechococcus (Johnson et al. 1988)
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length c. 5 µm, width c. 3 µm
- Literature
- Johnson, P. W., Hargraves, P. E. & Sieburth, J. M. 1988. Ultrastructure and ecology of Calycomonas ovalis Wulff, 1919, (Chrysophyceae) and its redescription as a testate rhizopod, Paulinella ovalis, N. Comb. (Filosea: Euglyphina). J. Protozool. 35: 618-626.
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.
Wulff, A.1919. Ueber das Kleinplankton der Barentssee. Wissenschaftliche Meeresunterschungen, Neue Folge Abteilung Helgoland 13: 95-125.