Scrippsiella crystallina Lewis, 1991
Scrippsiella crystallina
Cysts. (DIC&SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Scrippsiella crystallina
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Cysts. (DIC&SEM)
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat, Dinoflagellate cysts
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238198
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 47565
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238198
- Morphology
- Egg-shaped calcareous cyst with a red body towards apex. The calcareous ornamentation is typical
- Other remarks
- The thecate cell resemble the thecate cell of S. trochoidea (Lewis 1991)
Distribution: Scotland, Gullmarsfjorden - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Cyst size length 50-68 µm, width 36-48 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Lewis, J. 1991. Cyst-theca relationships in Scrippsiella ( Dinophyceae) and related orthoperidinoid genera. Botanica Marina. 34: 91-106.
Change History
- 2011-09-26 14:17:28 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Scrippsiella crystallina_1.gif