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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 var. sertularia ?, lorica 30 μm long, 9 μm wide, L/W=3.3, cell body 10 μm long, 8 μm wide, L/W=1.3, x 640, Hachiman-numa marsh, Hachimantai, Hachimantai city (formerly Ashiro town & Matsuo village), Iwate Pref., Japan, July 16, 2005 by Y. Tsukii
scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
Dinobryon sertularia


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