image_list image_listE

Chrysophyceae: Ochromonadales: Dinobryaceae

Dinobryon sertularia
Ehrenberg var. sertularia

Dinobryon sertularia Genus: Solitary or colonial; individuals with vase-like, hyaline, but sometimes, yellowish cellulose lorica, drawn out at its base; one to two lateral chromatophores (chloroplasts); usually with a stigma; in colonial forms daughter individuals remains attached to the inner margin of aperture of parent loricas and there secrete new loricas; (Kudo, 1966).
Species:
Similar Genus ->> Hyalobryon; Bicoeca petiolata


Dinobryon sertularia Ehrenberg, lorica 35 μm long, 9 μm wide, cell body 13-14 μm long, 6.5 μm wide, x 640, a small pond near Yumi-ike (Yumi pond), Shirane mountain, Kusatsu town, Gunma Pref., Japan, June 5, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Dinobryon sertularia Dinobryon sertularia Dinobryon sertularia


Please click on images for viewing enlarged.
Copyright Protist Information Server