Pterosperma vanhoeffenii (E. Jørgensen) Ostenfeld in Knudsen & Ostenfeld, 1899
Pterosperma vanhoeffenii
A = Living and dead cells at different focal planes; B = Cell in Lugol. (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- 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
- Dyntaxa ID: 238959
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 56416
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238959
- 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.