compiled by Malte Elbrächter
last update: 29
August 2008
Brachydinium
taylori Sournia 1972
Cahier O.R.S.T.O.M., série Océanographie 10(2): 153, fig. 3.
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Type specimen: not deposited
Type figure: fig. 3
Type locality: St. 9, about 13° 23’ S, 47° 55’ E (estimated from map, fig. 2)
Latin diagnosis: +
Size: about 25 µm long (including horn-like processes, as estimated from fig.), length of horn-like processes about 20 µm, about 22 µm wide (cingulum), total
width 62 µm
Chloroplasts: +
Stigma: not mentioned, not depicted
Nucleus: large, spherical, in left part above left antapical horn-like process.
Habitat: marine, planktonic
Cyst: not mentioned
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.
