Oblea - Dinoflagellate Photos

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Taxonomic Hierarchy
Oblea
Kingdom Chromista
Subkingdom Chromista
Division Pyrrophycophyta – dinoflagellates
Class Dinophyceae
Order Peridiniales Haeckel, 1894
Family Kolkwitziellaceae Lindemann, 1928
Genus Oblea Balech ex Loeblich, Jr. and Loeblich, III, 1966
Oblea, Balech ex Loeblich, Jr. and Loeblich, III, 1966, Taxonomic Serial No.: 10193

































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Oblea Photo

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The organism in question is the pink/purple colored disk.















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Oblea

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The yellow disk is a Coscinodiscus, the purple oval disk is Oblea and the sticklike branch is Thalassionema.

More of the mysterious purple oval disk.

Terri Hathaway wrote:
looks interesting! should be an easy one to identify with its distinctive shape and 2 rows of cilia.

Terri

Dr. Morton says that the pink compressed dinoflagellate is Oblea with a super big food vacuole. So neat!!!

Thanks for sharing,

>Allison Sill, JHT Inc. Contractor
Program Coordinator
Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
http://www.chbr.noaa.gov/PMN/

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