Lotharella oceanica sp. nov. - A new planktonic chlorarachniophyte studied by light and electron microscopy

Phycologia

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 315-323

  Ota, Shuhei ^a,c   Silver, Tia D ^b   Archibald, John M ^b   Ishida, Ken Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

Author keywords

Chlorarachniophytes; Lotharella oceanica; Plankton; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIGELOWIELLA; BIGELOWIELLA NATANS; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE; LOTHARELLA;

EID: 70349414657     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/09-02.1     Document Type: Article

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