Cell in feeding position (PC)
Life-form: Solitary
Size: length 3-8 µm
Resting spore:
Note: It can feed on Hemiselmis sp. in culture. Associated with surfaces
Distinctive features: With a characteristic motion and often with one long and one short flagellum
Similar species:
Distribution: Widely
Literature:
Grießmann, K. 1913. Über marine flagellaten. Archiven
für Protistenkunde/Protozoen, Algen, Pilzen., 32: 1-78.
Larsen, J. & Patterson, D. J. 1990. Some flagellates (Protista) from tropical marine sediments. J. Nat. Hist. 24: 801-937.
Vørs, N. 1992a. Heterotrofe protister (ekskl. dinoflagellater, loricabærende choanoflagellater og ciliater). In: (Thomsen eds.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, pp. 195-250.
Vørs, N. 1992b. Heterotrophic amoebae, flagellates and heliozoa from the Tvärminne area, Gulf of Finland, in 1988-1990. Ophelia. 36: 1-109.