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 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.
- 1 2 Lee, Robert E. (1999). Phycology. Cambridge, [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-63883-8.