Discovery of a novel type of body scale in the marine dinoflagellate, Amphidinium cupulatisquama sp. nov. (Dinophyceae)

Phycological Research

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 304-312

  Tamura, Maiko ^a,b   Takano, Yoshihito ^a,c   Horiguchi, Takeo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphidinium cupulatisquama sp. nov.; Body scales; Dinophyceae; Large subunit rDNA; Molecular phylogeny; Taxonomy; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLADISTICS; DINOFLAGELLATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENY; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

IKEI ISLAND; JAPAN; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

AMPHIDINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 71949096546     PISSN: 13220829     EISSN: 14401835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.2009.00550.x     Document Type: Article

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