Parvilucifera sp.

Super Group: 
Alveolata
Phylum: 
Perkinsozoa
Class: 
Perkinsea
Order: 
Perkinsida
Family: 
Perkinsidae
Genus: 
Parvilucifera
Species: 
sp.

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Etymology

parvus (Latin), small lucidus (Latin) shining, referring to the small refractile zooids

Ecology

Substrate_spores: planktonic
Substrate_sporangium: sediment
Substrate_trophont: endophytic

Sociability_spores: solitary
Sociability_trophont: solitary
Sociability_sporangium: solitary

Salinity: marine
Salinity: variable (estuary)
pH : neutral

Life cycle

Lytic cycle, zoosporic parasite.
Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual
Resting_stage: sporangium_asexual

Symbiont: horizontal_active-penetration
 

Feeding behaviour

Osmotrophy

Mode of locomotion

Zoospores with two flagella

Observation site(s)

HOSTS

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Akashiwo sanguinea Catalunya Harbor of Tarragona M. Delgado, “A new species of Gymnodinium that caused the 1998 summer human respiratory syndrome and decimation of marine life in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand”, Harmful Algae News, vol. 19, pp. 1-3, 1999.
Alexandrium affine Catalunya Harbor of Tarragona M. Delgado, “A new species of Gymnodinium that caused the 1998 summer human respiratory syndrome and decimation of marine life in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand”, Harmful Algae News, vol. 19, pp. 1-3, 1999.
Alexandrium fundyense Penzé estuary E. Erard-Le Denn, Chrétiennot-Dinet, M. - J., and Probert, I., “First Report of Parasitism on the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim”, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 109 - 113, 2000.
Alexandrium minutum Penzé estuary E. Erard-Le Denn, Chrétiennot-Dinet, M. - J., and Probert, I., “First Report of Parasitism on the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim”, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 109 - 113, 2000.
Alexandrium minutum Catalunya Harbor of Tarragona M. Delgado, “A new species of Gymnodinium that caused the 1998 summer human respiratory syndrome and decimation of marine life in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand”, Harmful Algae News, vol. 19, pp. 1-3, 1999.
Alexandrium pacificum Penzé estuary E. Erard-Le Denn, Chrétiennot-Dinet, M. - J., and Probert, I., “First Report of Parasitism on the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim”, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 109 - 113, 2000.
Alexandrium pacificum Catalunya Harbor of Tarragona M. Delgado, “A new species of Gymnodinium that caused the 1998 summer human respiratory syndrome and decimation of marine life in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand”, Harmful Algae News, vol. 19, pp. 1-3, 1999.
Dinophysis sacculus Catalunya Harbor of Tarragona M. Delgado, “A new species of Gymnodinium that caused the 1998 summer human respiratory syndrome and decimation of marine life in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand”, Harmful Algae News, vol. 19, pp. 1-3, 1999.
Karenia mikimotoi Penzé estuary E. Erard-Le Denn, Chrétiennot-Dinet, M. - J., and Probert, I., “First Report of Parasitism on the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim”, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 109 - 113, 2000.
Prorocentrum micans Catalunya Harbor of Tarragona M. Delgado, “A new species of Gymnodinium that caused the 1998 summer human respiratory syndrome and decimation of marine life in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand”, Harmful Algae News, vol. 19, pp. 1-3, 1999.
Protoperidinium bipes Catalunya Harbor of Tarragona M. Delgado, “A new species of Gymnodinium that caused the 1998 summer human respiratory syndrome and decimation of marine life in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand”, Harmful Algae News, vol. 19, pp. 1-3, 1999.
Scrippsiella trochoidea-species complex Catalunya Harbor of Tarragona M. Delgado, “A new species of Gymnodinium that caused the 1998 summer human respiratory syndrome and decimation of marine life in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand”, Harmful Algae News, vol. 19, pp. 1-3, 1999.
Scrippsiella trochoidea-species complex Penzé estuary E. Erard-Le Denn, Chrétiennot-Dinet, M. - J., and Probert, I., “First Report of Parasitism on the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim”, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 109 - 113, 2000.