Scrippsiella lachrymosa Lewis, 1991
Scrippsiella lachrymosa
Cysts. (DIC&SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Scrippsiella lachrymosa
- 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: 238201
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 141117
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238201
- Morphology
- Elongate oval cyst with flattened calcareous plates
- Other remarks
- The thecate cell resemble the thecate cell of S. trochoidea but it is smaller (Lewis 1991)
Distribution: Scotland, North Sea, Gullmarsfjorden - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Cyst size length 34-44 µm, width 18-32 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Culture collections
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SCCAP
The Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa at the University of Copenhagen
More info at http://www.sccap.dk.
Strains: K-1109 - Literature
- Lewis, J. 1991. Cyst-theca relationships in Scrippsiella ( Dinophyceae) and related orthoperidinoid genera. Botanica Marina. 34: 91-106.
Nehring, S. 1994. Scripsiella spp. resting cysts from the German Bight (North Sea): a tool for more complete check-lists of dinoflagellates. Neth. J. Sea Res. 33: 57-63.
Change History
- 2011-09-26 14:17:55 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Scrippsiella lachrymosa_1.gif