Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole: Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
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Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole: Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
Protozoa -- Massachusetts -- Woods Hole; United States Fisheries Biological Station at Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Although the description of Pouchet's _P. digitale_ differs in some
respects from a careful description of the Woods Hole form, I think
the species are the same. The chief difference is in the single horn
of the posterior half; in Pouchet's form this is furrowed by a narrow
groove which runs to the S-shaped longitudinal furrow. In the Woods
Hole form I was unable to make out such a furrow. The flagella, also,
were not seen. This same form was pictured by Peck '95 as _P.
divergens_.
[Illustration: Fig. 23.--_Peridinium digitale_.]
Peridinium divergens Ehr. Fig. 24.
Synonym: _Ceratium divergens_ Kent.
The shell is spheroidal, widest centrally, attenuate and pointed
posteriorly; the anterior portion is armed with two short, pointed
horns, each of them having a toothed process at the basal portion
of the inner margin. They are frequently colorless and beautifully
transparent, the body being free from large opaque granules; again
they are colored brown or yellow. The nucleus is large and elongate
and finely granular. 75µ long and 68µ in diameter. Common.
[Illustration: Fig. 24.--Ventral and dorsal aspects of _Peridinium
divergens_.]
Genus CERATIUM (Schrank).
(Stein '78; Perty '52; Clap & Lach. '58; Bergh '82; Pouchet '83;
Gourret & Roeser '88; Bütschli '85; Kent '81; Senn 1900; Schütt '98.)
The general shape is a flattened sphere with three long processes
or horns. The cross-furrow is either spiral or circular; the
longitudinal furrow is usually wide and occupies the greater part of
the anterior half of the shell. The shell is thick, reticulate or
striped, and sometimes provided with short spines; often distinctly
porous. The anterior half is composed of 3 equatorial and 3 apical
plates, the latter being continued into the horn-like process. The
posterior half is composed of 3 equatorial and one apical plate
continued into the posterior horn. The right posterior plate is
continued into a similar horn which may remain rudimentary or be
continued into a considerable process. Similarly the left posterior
horn is usually developed, but remains small. There may be from 2 to
3, 4, and 5 horns. Chromatophores usually present, green to yellow
brown.
Fresh and salt water.
Ceratium tripos Ehr. Fig. 25.
The body is somewhat triangular and bears three horns, two of which
are shorter than the other one and slightly curved upward.
Length, including the horns, 290µ.
[Illustration: Fig. 25.--_Ceratium tripos_.]
Ceratium fusus Ehr. Fig. 26.
Synonym: _Peridinium fusus_ Ehr.
The animal is very elongate, due to the presence of two long horns
at the extremities of the body. Color, yellow with chromatophores.
Length 285µ; width 23µ.
Both of these species are common in the tow and in the algæ at the
edge of the wharf. Both of them are mentioned by Peck in '93 and '95.
[Illustration: Fig. 26.--_Ceratium fusus_.]
Genus AMPHIDINIUM Clap. & Lach.
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