Tiarina fusus (Claparède & Lachmann, 1857)
Tiarina fusus
A = Single specimen (BF); B = Several specimen in feeding positions (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Tiarina fusus
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = Single specimen (BF); B = Several specimen in feeding positions (DIC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238538
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 141157
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- Dyntaxa ID: 238538
- Morphology
- Body barrel-shaped and bearing uniquely calcified armored plates in longitudinal rows
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 85-135 µm
- Literature
- Bergh, R. S. 1879-1880. Tiarina fusus (Clap., Lachm.). Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. i Kjøbenhavn. 1879-80: 265-270.
Corliss, J. O. 1979. The ciliated protozoa. Pergamon Press, 455 pp.
Dale, T. & Dahl, E. 1987. A red tide in southern Norway caused by mass occurrence of the planktonic ciliate Tiarina fusus. Fauna. 40: 98-103.
Hansen, P. J. 1991. Dinophysis - a planktonic dinoflagellate genus which can act both as prey and a predator of a ciliate. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 69: 201-204.
Kahl, A. 1930. Urtiere oder Protozoa I: Wimptiere oder Ciliata (Infusoria), 1. Allgemeiner Teil und Prostomata. In: F. Dahl (ed.), Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Fischer, Jena, 18: 1-180