A-D = Cells in culture (arrow=pyrenoid) (DIC); E-H = Fieldmaterial fixed in glutaraldehyde (epifluorescence micropscopy), E-G=Blue filter combination (arrow=red body in the posterior), H=UV-filter combination, Nucleus (DAPI); I-M = Cells in Lugol (DIC)
Life-form: Solitary
Size: Length 16-30 µm, ventral to dorsal width 10-13 µm
Resting spore:
Note: According to Novarino (1991) the name Rhodomonas should be avoided. Common in spring in the brackish water layer of Gullmarsfjorden
Distinctive features:
Similar species:
Distribution:
Literature:
Hill, D. R. A. 1992b. Rhodomonas marina (Dangeard) Lemmermann
(Cryptophyceae). Baltic Sea Identification Sheet No. 10. Ann. Bot.
Fennici. 169-170.
Hill, D. R. A. & Wetherbee, R. 1989. A reappraisal of the genus Rhodomonas (Cryptophyceae). Phycologia. 28:143-148.
Novarino, G. 1991. Observations on Rhinomonas reticulata comb. nov. and R. reticulata var. eliniana var. nov. (Cryptophyceae), with comments on the genera Pyrenomonas and Rhodomonas. Nord. J. Bot. 11: 243-252.