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Name derivation |
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Classification: |
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Stylodinium Klebs 1912; 5 of 16 species descriptions are currently accepted taxonomically (Guiry and Guiry 2013).Order Thoracosphaerales; Family Oodiniaceae
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Morphology: |
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Unicellular nonmotile cell during most of its life cycle, cell attached by a stalk to a sand grain. Also has a flagellate stage. The ultrastructure has been studied with emphasis on the apical stalk (Horiguchi and Yoshizawa-Ebata 2006).
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Marine, sammolittoral (sand substrate). |
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References: |
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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 30 July 2012. Horibuchi, T. and J. Yoshizawa-Ebata. 1998. Ultrastructure of Stylodinium littorale (Dinophyceae) with special reference to the stalk and apical stalk complex. Phycological Research 46(4):205-211. Klebs, G. 1912. Über Flagellaten- und Algen-ähnliche Peridineen. Verh. Naturhist. Med. Vereins Heidelberg, N.F. 11: 369-451. |
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