Scrippsiella trifida Lewis, 1991
Scrippsiella trifida
Cysts. (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Scrippsiella trifida
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Cysts. (DIC)
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat, Dinoflagellate cysts
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238202
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 47575
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238202
- Morphology
- Oval cyst with a central red body and with trifurcate recurving calcareous spines
- Other remarks
- The thecate cell resemble the thecate cell of S. trochoidea (Lewis 1991)
Distribution: Scotland, North Sea, Gullmarsfjorden - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Cyst size length 27-46 µm, width 21-36 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- 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 14:18:23 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Scrippsiella trifida_1.gif