(SEM)
Life-form: Solitary
Size: Length 1-3 µm
Resting spore:
Note:
Distinctive features: Small pear-shaped cell with one pyrenoid. Flagellum with terminal microtubles. Characteristic swiming-pattern
Similar species:
Distribution: Worldwide
Literature:
Manton, I. & Parke, M. 1960. Further observations on small green
flagellates with special reference to possible relatives of
Chromulina pusilla Butcher. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 39:
275-298
Throndsen, J. 1993. The planktonic marine flagellates. In: (Tomas eds.) Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 7-145.