The structure of the trichocyst-like material. (DIC)
Life-form: Solitary motile
Size: 8 µm
Resting spore:
Note: The trichocyst-like material and flagellates are sometimes common in dry preparation made from Lugol-samples from coastal waters in the Skagerrak
Distinctive features: Scale structure, length of flagella and haptonema, the structure of the trichocyst-like material
Similar species:
Distribution: New Zealand, Australia, North Atlantic, Skagerrak
Literature:
Estep, K. W., Davis, P. G., Hargraves, P. E. and Sieburth, J. M. c.
N. 1984. Chloroplast containing microflagellates in natural
populations of North Atlantic nanoplankton, their identification and
distribution; including a description of five new species of
Chrysochromulina (Prymnesiophyceae). Protistologica. 20:
613-634.
Hallegraeff, G. M. 1983. Scale-bearing and loricate nanoplankton from the East Australian current. Botanica Marina. 26: 493-515.
Moestrup, Ø. 1979. Identification by electron microscopy of marine nanoplankton from New Zealand, including the description of four new species. N. Z. J. Bot. 17: 61-95.
Moestrup, Ø. & Larsen, J. 1992. Potentially toxic phytoplankton. 1. Haptophyceae (Prymnesiophyceae). In: Lindley, J. A. (ed.) ICES Identification leaflets for plankton. International Council for the exploration of the sea, Copenhagen, p. 1-11.