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