compiled by Malte Elbrächter
last update: 29 August 2008
Brachydinium brevipes Sournia 1972
Cahier O.R.S.T.O.M., série Océanographie 10(2): 153-154, fig. 4.
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Type specimen: not deposited
Type figure: fig. 4
Type locality: St. 9, about 13° 23’ S, 47° 55’ E (estimated from map, fig. 2)
Latin diagnosis: +
Size: about 25 µm long, about 70 µm wide (as deduced from figure)
Chloroplasts: absent?
Stigma: not mentioned, not depicted
Nucleus: triangular at the base of the left antapical horn-like processes
Habitat: marine, planktonic
Cyst: not mentioned, not depicted
Sournia A. (1972) Une période de poussées phytoplanctoniques près de Nosy-Bé (Madagascar) en
1971. I. - Espèces rares ou nouvelles du phytoplancton. - Cahier O.R.S.T.O.M., série Océanographie 10(2): 151-159.
