Podolampas bipes var reticulata
Diagnosis
P. bipes and P. bipes var reticulata always contained autofluorescent endocytobionts, which were interpreted as dinoflagellate chloroplasts by former investigations based on light microscopy. Ultrastructural details of the endocytobionts show that they belong to the class Dictyochophyceae (Heterokontophyta), most probably to the order Pedinellales.
Body_length: 80-115 µm.
Body_dorsoventral: 43-56 µm
Body_length_appendage: 26-31 µm
Toxicity: No
Etymology
Kofoid (1907) distinguished reticulata from bipes mainly by its "very large and broadly rounded" antapical fins and its reticulated thecal surface. The present author found from Shimoda Bay some intermediate forms in addition to the two typical ones. In respect to the surface reticulation, all of the bove-mentioned forms cannot be distinguished from one another.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Podolampas is Podolampas bipes Stein.
Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen
Type_illustration: In STEIN (1883),Pl. 8, Figs. 6,7.
Ecology
Substrate: planktonic
Sociability: solitary
Salinity: marine
pH: neutral
Feeding: osmotrophe
Feeding: oligatory phototrophic endosymbiontes
Life cycle
Phases_alternance: haplontic
Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual