A living cell at different focal planes (DIC)
Life-form: Solitary
Size: Length 75-104 µm, width 47 µm.
Resting spore:
Note:
Distinctive features: Girdle making two turns and sulcus only 0.5 turns. Ocellus in the anterior half of cell
Similar species: Warnowia fusus Nematodinium torpedo
Distribution: Widely
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.