Gonyaulax spinifera
Super Group:
Alveolata
Phylum:
Dinophyta
Class:
Dinophyceae
Order:
Gonyaulacales
Family:
Gonyaulacaceae
Genus:
Gonyaulax
Species:
spinifera
Synonym(s):
Peridinium spiniferum Claparède & Lachmann
Spiniferites mirabilis (M.R.Rossignol) Sarjeant
Peridinium levanderi Lemmermann
Spiniferites ramosus (Ehrenberg) Mantell
Gonyaulax levanderi (Lemmermann) Paulsen 1907
Tectatodinium pellitum Wall 1967
Etymology
Adjective (Latin), spine-bearing (Stearn 1973).
Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Gonyaulax.
Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen
Type locality: North Sea, near Glesnaesholm, W. Norway
Ecology
Substrate: planktonic
Sociability: solitary
Salinity: marine
Salinity: variable (estuary)
Salinity: Freshwater
pH: neutral
Life cycle
Phases_alternance: haplontic
Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual_binary
Feeding behaviour
Photosynthetic
Mode of locomotion
Two flagella typical for Dinophyceae
Flagellum: 2
Motility: motile_swimming
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