Kryptoperidinium foliaceum

Super Group: 
Alveolata
Phylum: 
Dinophyta
Class: 
Dinophyceae
Order: 
Dinotrichales
Family: 
Dinotrichaceae
Genus: 
Kryptoperidinium
Species: 
foliaceum
Authority: 
(F.Stein) Lindemann 1924
Synonym(s): 
Basionym: Glenodinium foliaceum F.Stein

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Diagnosis

Stage no mobile : 15-35 µm long, 14-35 µm wide  ; round, flattened and has reddish spots
Bloom: No
Toxicity: No

Type species

This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Kryptoperidinium.

Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen

Type locality: aus dem Hafen von Wismar

Ecology

Substrate: planktonic
Sociability: solitary
Salinity: marine
Salinity: variable (estuary)
pH: neutral

Feeding: Photosynthetic

Life cycle

Phases_alternance: haplontic
Generation: <1 month

Reproduction_mode: asexual_binary
Reproduction_mode: sexual (Figueroa et al. 2009). 
Reproduction_mode: sexual_homothallism

Feeding behaviour

Photosynthetic

Mode of locomotion

Two flagella typical for Dinophyceae
Flagellum: 2
Motility: motile_swimming

Reference(s)

Observation site(s)

SYMBIONTS

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Amoebophrya ceratii-species complex Sète
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Horiguchi T, Takano Y (2006) Serial replacement of a diatom endosymbiont in the marine dinoflagellate Peridinium quinquecorne (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae). Phycological Research 54:193 - 200. doi: 10.1111/pre.2006.54.issue-310.1111/j.1440-1835.2006.00426.x
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