Chytriodinium sp. from Pacific

Super Group: 
Alveolata
Phylum: 
Dinophyta
Class: 
Dinophyceae
Family: 
Chytriodinidae
Genus: 
Chytriodinium
Authority: 
Undescribed species

Diagnosis

Chytriodinium like parasite, from Pacific Ocean, infecting Euphausia pacifica eggs, average length: 86 µm, n=3.
This ectoparasitoid was attached to the chorion showing an incipient holdfast organelle (HFO) that goes through the perivitelline space as an anchorage to the embryo. This parasitoid divides using palintomic sporogenic divisions beneath the initial envelope of the trophont.

Body_trophont_length: 86 µm

Type species

The type species for the genus Chytriodinium roseum.

Ecology

Substrate: epizoic
Salinity: marine

Life cycle

Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual
Symbiont: horizontal

Feeding behaviour

Osmotrophy
Parasitism

Mode of locomotion

Flagellum_spore:2

Observation site(s)

HOSTS

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Euphausia pacifica Oregon coast