Prorocentrum triestinum Schiller, 1918
Prorocentrum triestinum
A = A living cell; B = Half theca with spine; C = Different living cells (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Prorocentrum triestinum
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = A living cell; B = Half theca with spine; C = Different living cells (DIC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238442
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 51821
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- Dyntaxa ID: 238442
- Morphology
- Small species with a few scattered trichocyst pores
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 18-22 µm, width 6-11 µm
- Literature
- Bursa, A. 1959. The genus Prorocentrum Ehrenberg. Morphodynamics, protoplasmatic structures, and taxonomy. Can. J. Bot. 37: 1-31.
Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Schiller, J. 1918. Über neue Prorocentrum- und Exuviella-Arten aus der Adria. Arch. f. Protistenk. 38: 250-262
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.