Pedinella

Pedinella
Scientific classification
(unranked): SAR
Superphylum: Heterokonta
Class: Dictyochophyceae
Order: Pedinellales
Family: Pedinellales
Genus: Pedinella
Vysotskij

Pedinella is a small, unicellular planktonic or attached, flagellated Heterokont first described in 1888 by A. V. Vysotskij.[1] The genus is monospecific, and the single species is Pedinella hexacostata Vysotskij.[1] Pedinella has an inverted bell or apple shape with a stalk arising from the posterior end, and has a single, long, ribbon-like, apical flagellum and, a second apical flagellum that is reduced to its basal body.[1][2] The cells are radially symmetrical, with a large central nucleus, surrounded equatorially by a number of chloroplasts that cause the body to bulge out where the plastids are pushed up against the plasma membrane.[1][2] The organism is found in freshwater and brackish freshwater habitats. Pedinella is a mixotroph and functions through either photosynthesis or by ingesting organic substances from its environment.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 John, D. I.; Whitton, Brian A.; Brook, Alan J. (2002). The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles: an identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77051-4.
  2. 1 2 Lee, Robert E. (1999). Phycology. Cambridge, [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63883-8.
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