Name the Bug # 22

Another ID challenge as a preview for tomorrow's post. I know at least one of my regular readers will be able to get this easily if she sees it, so from her (she knows who she is) I'm going to require a species-level identification or close to. Everyone else, see what you can do:



The figure is in ventral view and the specimen is 130 µm wide. Attribution to follow.

Update: Identity now available here. Figure from Steidinger & Williams (1970).
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5 comments:

  1. Gunnar30 August 2010 at 17:53

    To my untrained eye this looks very much like a dinophyte.

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  2. Anonymous30 August 2010 at 19:23

    I second that. Looks like a Dinoflagellate to me.

    ~Kai

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  3. Consuelo31 August 2010 at 06:20

    It seems like a Ceratium sp.

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  4. Geoff McFadden31 August 2010 at 14:09

    Protoperidinium

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  5. Psi Wavefunction2 September 2010 at 09:37

    Shit, you HAD to do this the week I lacked internet access -- I knew this one!

    Grrrr...beaten by none other than the apicoplast guy! =P

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