Description
in Honda & Inouye, 1995 Single-celled , free-swimming flagellates with a multilayered external cell covering (theca); cells reniform, dorsally often convex , ventrally with a furrow subtending the flagellar insertion and extending obliquely anteriorly ; 2 unequal flagella , inserted side by side on ventral surface ; single chloroplast, with a pyrenoid transected by a pair of thylakoids; eyespot lacking; marine, monospecific genus. See Billard , 1984 ; Honda and Inouy e, 1995. 736 PELAGOPHYCE (=Ankylonoton /uteum van der Ve er) (Fig. 1) . Cell bean -shaped, 4.0-10 .5 x 3 .0-6 .0 )..l m ; anterior flagel lum 6-9 )..lm long , posterior flag ellum 5-8 ~tm long , euryhaline species . Se9 van der Veer, 1970 ; Bi llard , 1984 ; Honda & Inouye , 1995. side . A, ante ri or fl agel lu m; Ch , chl orop last, Cv , ch ry so lami naran vac uol e; Fg , flagellar groove; G, Golgi body; M, mito chondrion; N, nu cleus; P , posterior fl agel lum ; Sv , vacuo le with scale-l ik e bod ies. Scal e=2 ~t m . (From Honda and Inouye , 1995)
Type species
Ankylochrysis lutea (van der Veer) Billard in Honda et Inouye, 1 9 9 5
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in Honda & Inouye, 1995 Single-celled , free-swimming flagellates with a multilayered external cell covering (theca); cells reniform, dorsally often convex , ventrally with a furrow subtending the flagellar insertion and extending obliquely anteriorly ; 2 unequal flagella , inserted side by side on ventral surface ; single chloroplast, with a pyrenoid transected by a pair of thylakoids; eyespot lacking; marine, monospecific genus. See Billard , 1984 ; Honda and Inouy e, 1995. 736 PELAGOPHYCE (=Ankylonoton /uteum van der Ve er) (Fig. 1) . Cell bean -shaped, 4.0-10 .5 x 3 .0-6 .0 )..l m ; anterior flagel lum 6-9 )..lm long , posterior flag ellum 5-8 ~tm long , euryhaline species . Se9 van der Veer, 1970 ; Bi llard , 1984 ; Honda & Inouye , 1995. side . A, ante ri or fl agel lu m; Ch , chl orop last, Cv , ch ry so lami naran vac uol e; Fg , flagellar groove; G, Golgi body; M, mito chondrion; N, nu cleus; P , posterior fl agel lum ; Sv , vacuo le with scale-l ik e bod ies. Scal e=2 ~t m . (From Honda and Inouye , 1995)