3 NEW BENTHIC SPECIES OF PROROCENTRUM (DINOPHYCEAE) FROM TWIN-CAYS, BELIZE - P-MACULOSUM SP-NOV, P-FORAMINOSUM SP-NOV AND P-FORMOSUM SP-NOV

Authors
FAUST MA
Citation
Ma. Faust, 3 NEW BENTHIC SPECIES OF PROROCENTRUM (DINOPHYCEAE) FROM TWIN-CAYS, BELIZE - P-MACULOSUM SP-NOV, P-FORAMINOSUM SP-NOV AND P-FORMOSUM SP-NOV, Phycologia, 32(6), 1993, pp. 410-418
Citations number
37
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences","Marine & Freshwater Biology
Journal title
Phycologia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00318884
Volume
32
Issue
6
Year of publication
1993
Pages
410 - 418
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-8884(1993)32:6<410:3NBSOP>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Three new benthic dinoflagellate species, Prorocentrum maculosum sp. n ov., Prorocentrum foraminosum sp. nov. and Prorocentrum formosum sp. n ov., are described from floating detritus and sediments in a subtropic al mangrove island, Twin Cays, Belize, Central America, using scanning electron microscopy. Differences in the following characters of surfa ce morphology separated the species: ornamentation of thecal plates (s hape, size and number of valve pores) and the architecture of the peri flagellar area and intercalary band.