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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 36 μm long, 9 μm wide, cell body 17 μm long, 6 μm wide, x 640, Karakemi marsh, Yasaka, Omachi city (formerly Yasaka village), Nagano Pref., Japan, May 8, 2006 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Dinobryon sertularia Dinobryon sertularia
Lorica 35-37 μm long, 9.5 μm wide, cell body 13-14 μm long, 6 μm wide,
Dinobryon sertularia
Lorica 36 μm long, 9 μm wide, cell body 24-25 μm long, 5-6 μm wide,
Dinobryon sertularia Dinobryon sertularia

Images of collecting locality: Karakemi marsh, Yasaka, Omachi city (formerly Yasaka village), Nagano Pref., Japan, May 8, 2006 by Y. Tsukii


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