Pterosperma marginatum Gaarder, 1954
Pterosperma marginatum
Cell at different focal planes. (arrow=pore) (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Pterosperma marginatum
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Cell at different focal planes. (arrow=pore) (DIC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238950
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 56411
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238950
- Morphology
- Protruding alae encircling a pore in the wall
- Other remarks
Distribution: Atlantic- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Diameter=15 µm (excl. lists)
- Literature
- Gaarder, K. R. 1954b. Coccolithineae, Silicoflagellatae, Pterospermataceae and other forms from the """"Michael Sars"""" North Atlantic deep-sea expedition 1910. Rep. Sci. Res.""""Michael Sars"""" N. Atlant. Deep-sea Exp. 1910, II: 1-20.""
Parke, M., Boalch, G. T., Jowett, R. & Harbour, D. S. 1978. The genus Pterosperma (Prasinophyceae): Species with a single equatorial ala. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 58: 239-276.
Throndsen, J. 1993. The planktonic marine flagellates. In: (Tomas eds.) Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 7-145.