Prorocentrum compressum (J.W. Bailey) Abé ex Dodge, 1975
Prorocentrum compressum
Photographer/artist Lars Edler
Additional image information
- Title
- Prorocentrum compressum
- Photographer/artist
- Lars Edler
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM PEG
- Contributor
- Janina Kownacka
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Synonym names
- Tryblionella compressa
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238437
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52603
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238437
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Broadly ovate cell in valve view and with two spinelike extensions near periflagellar area
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- length 30-50 µm, width 25-30 µm
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
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.
Steidinger K. A. & Tangen, K. 1996. Dinoflagellates. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 387-584.
Change History
- 2021-10-01 15:03:49 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Prorocentrum compressum_3.jpg
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- 2021-10-01 15:02:48 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Prorocentrum compressum_2.jpg
- 2021-10-01 15:02:12 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Prorocentrum compressum_2.jpg