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Diversity and Distribution of Noctilucoid Dinofl agellates (Noctilucales, Dinophyceae) in the Open Mediterranean Sea

Publication date: 2010

Acta Protozoologica, 2010, Volume 49, Issue 4, pp. 365 - 372

Authors

Fernando Gómez
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Université de Lille, CNRS UMR 8187 LOG, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, Maison de la Recherche en Environnement Naturel, 32 av. Foch, 62930 Wimereux, France
Carmen Campos Panisse 3, E-11500 Puerto de Santa María, Spain
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Diversity and Distribution of Noctilucoid Dinofl agellates (Noctilucales, Dinophyceae) in the Open Mediterranean Sea

Abstract

The noctilucoid dinoflagellates have been investigated in the open waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Kofoidinium spp., Spatulodinium spp. and Scaphodinium mirabile were found in nearly all the stations. The genera CraspedotellaLeptodiscusPetalodinium and Pomatodinium were recorded for the first time in the eastern Mediterranean basin. An undescribed small species of Kofoidinium (40–60 μm in diameter) with a pointed extension represented about 1/3 of the genus records. The monotypic character of the genus Spatulodinium needs to be reconsidered because numerous specimens differed from the type species. One of these undescribed species showed a distinctive hyposome and an extremely long tentacle (up to 1600 μm long). A leptodiscacean that showed an arrowhead-shaped contour is found for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea. There is a considerable diversity of noctilucaceans yet to be described.

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Information: Acta Protozoologica, 2010, Volume 49, Issue 4, pp. 365 - 372

Article type: Original article

Authors

Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, Université de Lille, CNRS UMR 8187 LOG, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, Maison de la Recherche en Environnement Naturel, 32 av. Foch, 62930 Wimereux, France

Carmen Campos Panisse 3, E-11500 Puerto de Santa María, Spain

Published at: 2010

Received at: 17.06.2010

Accepted at: 23.08.2010

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