Living cells, (BF) and chloroplasts in epifluorescence microscope
Life-form: Solitary
Size: Length 25-35 µm, width 17-30 µm.
Resting spore:
Note:
Distinctive features: Form and hypotheca with one to several spines. Chloroplasts redish
Similar species: Amylax buxus
Distribution: Pacific and Atlantic oceans, cold water species
Literature:
Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her
Majesty's Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Dodge, J. D. 1989. Some revisions of the family Gonyaulacaceae (Dinophyceae) based on a scanning electron microscope study. Botanica Marina. 32: 275-298.
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 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.