Protoperidinium ovatum Pouchet, 1883
Protoperidinium ovatum
A = A living cell (arrowhead=spine with wings); B&C = Squased cell, ventral view (DIC).
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Protoperidinium ovatum
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = A living cell (arrowhead=spine with wings); B&C = Squased cell, ventral view (DIC).
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238272
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 54654
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238272
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Shape and colour of cell, the reticulation of the plates, sulcal plates
- Other remarks
- There are several small round species which resemble this species (Dodge 1982)
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 54-68 µm
- Literature
- Balech, E. 1976b. Sur quelques Protoperidinium (Dinoflagellata). Vie et Milieu. 26: 27-46.
Change History
- 2011-10-03 21:26:47 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium ovatum_1.gif
