compiled by Malte Elbrächter
last update: 29 August 2008
Brachydinium capitatum Taylor 1963
Journal of South African Botany 29: 75-77, pl. 7 figs 1-3.
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Type specimen: not deposited, but reference material is deposited as T N I-1 and T N I-2 in the Bolus Herbarium, Cape Town, South Africa
Type figure: plate 7 fig. 1 (in text: pl. 1 fig. 1)
Type locality: not designated, South West Indian Ocean (38° 50’ S, 27° 33.5’ E and 33° 21’ S, 30° 30.0’ E)
Latin diagnosis: +
Size: 31-46 µm long (including antapical horn-like processes), 95-123 µm wide, 10-12 µm deep.
Chloroplasts: +
Stigma: not mentioned, not depicted
Nucleus: ovoid
Habitat: marine, planktonic
Cyst: not mentioned
Taylor F.J.R. (1963) Brachydinium, a new genus of the Dinococcales from the Indian Ocean. -
Journal of South African Botany 29: 75-78 (incl. pl. 7).
