Pseudobodo tremulans Griessmann, 1913
Pseudobodo tremulans
A = A living cell in feeding position (arrowheads=long flagellum) (PC); B = Cell in Lugol (DIC); C = Drawings of cells fixed in Lugol
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Pseudobodo tremulans
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = A living cell in feeding position (arrowheads=long flagellum) (PC); B = Cell in Lugol (DIC); C = Drawings of cells fixed in Lugol
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237149
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52971
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- Dyntaxa ID: 237149
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Long flagellum with hairs, cell-mouth surrounded by a lip-formed structure (not showned)
- Other remarks
- It is especially common in sediments (Vørs 1992a)
Distribution: Widely - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 3-5 µm, width 2-4 µm
- Literature
- Fenchel, T. 1982. Ecology of heterotrophic microflagellates. I. Some important forms and their functional morphology. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 8: 211-223.
Grießmann, K. 1913. Über marine flagellaten. Archiven für Protistenkunde/Protozoen, Algen, Pilzen. 32 (year 1914): 1-78.
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.