Podolampas bipes
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
Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Podolampas.
Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen
Type_illustration: In STEIN (1883),Pl. 8, Figs. 6,7.
Type_locality: Quarnero (northwestern Mediterranean Sea) (Gómez et al. 2010: 312).
Ecology
Substrate: planktonic
Sociability: solitary
Salinity: marine
pH: neutral
Feeding: photosynthetic
Feeding: oligatory phototrophic endosymbiontes
Life cycle
Phases_alternance: haplontic
Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual
Feeding behaviour
Mode of locomotion
Reference(s)
Attached phylogeny
Observation site(s)
SYMBIONTS
Association with... | Region origin | Name of site | In reference... |
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Amoebophrya ceratii-species complex | Western basin | A |
Distribution and host diversity of Amoebophryidae parasites across oligotrophic waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Biogeosciences 8:267 - 278. doi: 10.5194/bg-8-267-2011 (2011) |
Amoebophrya ceratii-species complex | Ionian Sea | B |
Distribution and host diversity of Amoebophryidae parasites across oligotrophic waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Biogeosciences 8:267 - 278. doi: 10.5194/bg-8-267-2011 (2011) |