Tripos pulchellus

Super Group: 
Alveolata
Phylum: 
Dinophyta
Class: 
Dinophyceae
Order: 
Gonyaulacales
Family: 
Ceratiaceae
Genus: 
Tripos
Species: 
pulchellus
Authority: 
(Schröder) F.Gómez 2013
Synonym(s): 
Basionym: Ceratium pulchellum Schröder
Ceratium tripos subsp. pulchellum (Schröder) Peters
Ceratium pulchellum Schröder 1906
Ceratium tripos var. pulchellum (Schroder) Peters 1934
Ceratium tripos var. pulchellum (Schröder) López 1955
Ceratium tripos var. pulchellum (Schroder) Lopez ex Sournia 1973
Neoceratium pulchellum (Schröder) F.Gomez, D.Moreira & P.Lopez-Garcia 2010

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Etymology

Adjective (Latin), beautiful and little (Stearn 1973).

Type species

The type species (holotype) of the genus Tripos is Tripos muelleri Bory de Saint-Vincent.

Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen

Type_locality: Pacific Ocean

Ecology

Substrate: planktonic
Sociability: solitary
Salinity: marine
pH: neutral

Feeding: Photosynthetic

Life cycle

Phases_alternance: haplontic
Generation: <1 month

Reproduction_mode: asexual

Feeding behaviour

Photosynthetic

Mode of locomotion

Two flagella typical for Dinophyceae
Flagellum: 2
Motility: motile_swimming

Observation site(s)

SYMBIONTS

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Amoebophrya ceratii-species complex Western basin A R. Siano, Alves-de-Souza, C., Foulon, E., Bendif, E. M., Simon, N., Guillou, L., and Not, F., “Distribution and host diversity of Amoebophryidae parasites across oligotrophic waters of the Mediterranean Sea”, Biogeosciences, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 267 - 278, 2011.