Dinofurcula Kofoid & Skogsberg, 1928
Holotype species: Dinofurcula ultima (Kofoid) Kofoid & Skogsberg
Original publication and holotype designation: Kofoid, C.A. & Skogsberg, T. (1928). The Dinoflagellata: the Dinophysoidae [No.] XXXV. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from October 1904 to March 1905, Lieut. Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., Commanding. . Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 51: 1-766.
Request PDFDescription: Medium-sized (60 µm) unicellular flagellates, dorsoventrally compressed. Epicone very small, separated by a slightly descending sulcus from the large hypocone which is deeply and broadly bifurcated by a wide arc which reaches the posterior end of the sulcus. Depth of the bifurcation is but little less than the dorso-ventral diameter of the body in the cingular region. Cingulum wide, with flaring sub-horizontal lists; sulcus displaced to the left side ending at the starting point of the left antapical horn. Plate pattern and cell contents not described. Sexual reproduction and cyst formation not known. Marine oceanic plankton, so far found only by its authors in the Pacific Ocean; apparently a deep water species.
Information contributed by: M. Elbrächter. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-05-24 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kawai, H. & Nakayama, T. (2015). Introduction (Heterokontobionta p.p.), Cryptophyta, Dinophyta, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta (except Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae), Chlorarachniophyta, Euglenophyta. In: Syllabus of plant families. Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Ed. 13. Phototrophic eukaryotic Algae. Glaucocystophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta/Dinozoa, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta/Ochrophyta, Chlorarachnniophyta/Cercozoa, Chlorophyta, Streptophyta p.p. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. 11-64, 103-139. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.
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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 May 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 April 2024
