Ebria tripartita (Schumann) Lemmermann 1899

A = Cell feeding on Prorocentrum micans (BF); B = Squashed cell with skeleton and nucleus (=arrow) (DIC)




Synonym(s): Dictyocha tripartita Schumann 1867

Life-form: Solitary

Size: length 20-30 µm, width 20-25 µm

Resting spore:

Note: Feeding on diatoms and dinoflagellates

Distinctive features: Cells with skeleton and a large nucleus in the anterior end. Two flagella

Similar species:

Distribution: Worldwide

Literature:
Vørs, N. 1992a. Heterotrofe protister (ekskl. dinoflagellater, loricabærende choanoflagellater og ciliater). In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, p. 195-250.

Vørs, N. 1992b. Heterotrophic amoebae, flagellates and heliozoa from the Tvärminne area, Gulf of Finland, in 1988-1990. Ophelia. 36: 1-109.

Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.


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