Pterosperma vanhoeffenii (E. Jørgensen) Ostenfeld in Knudsen & Ostenfeld, 1899

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Pterosperma vanhoeffenii

A = Living and dead cells at different focal planes; B = Cell in Lugol. (DIC)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Pterosperma vanhoeffenii
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
A = Living and dead cells at different focal planes; B = Cell in Lugol. (DIC)
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
A few conspicous alae
Other remarks

Distribution: Atlantic
Life form
Solitary
Size
Diameter=47-53 µm (excl. lists)
Literature
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.