Warnowia polyphemus (Pouchet) Schiller, 1933
Warnowia cf. polyphemus
A living cell at different focal planes (DIC).
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Warnowia cf. polyphemus
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A living cell at different focal planes (DIC).
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238424
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 54517
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238424
- Morphology
- Girdle making two turns and sulcus only 0.5 turns. Ocellus in the anterior half of cell
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 75-104 µm, width 47 µm
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Schiller, J. 1933. Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae) in monographischer Behandlung. Teil 1. In Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora. 10, III: 617 pp.
Steidinger, K. A. & Tangen, K. 1996. Dinoflagellates. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 387-584.
Change History
- 2011-10-03 21:29:30 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Warnowia polyphemus_1.gif