A = Living cells (DIC); B = Lugol fixed cells (DIC); Fluorescence of a living cell using blue (=C) and UV-excitation (=D)
Life-form: Solitary
Size: length 12-45 µm.
Resting spore: +
Note: Could possibly belong to another division (see Steidinger & Tangen 1996)
Distinctive features: Heterotrophic cell with apical tentacle and two anterior flagella
Similar species:
Distribution: Worldwide (?)
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.