Tetraselmis

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Tetraselmis
Tetraselmis suecica
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Prasinophyceae
Order: Chlorodendrales
Family: Chlorodendraceae
Genus: Tetraselmis
Species

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Tetraselmis is a genus of phytoplankton. Tetraselmis has a very high lipid level; their amino acids stimulate feeding in marine organisms.[citation needed] Tetraselmis is green, motile, and usually grows 10 µm long x 14 µm wide.

The species T. convolutae is a symbiont of the acoelomate animal Symsagittifera roscoffensis (and can also live freely in the ocean).[1]

Species

  • Tetraselmis alacris Butcher
  • Tetraselmis apiculata (Butcher) Butcher
  • Tetraselmis ascus (Proskauer) R. E. Norris, Hori & Chihara
  • Tetraselmis astigmatica R. E. Norris & Hori
  • Tetraselmis chuii Butcher
  • Tetraselmis convolutae Parke & Manton
  • Tetraselmis cordiformis (N. Carter) S. F. N. Stein
  • Tetraselmis desikacharyi Matin, Hoef-Emden & Melkonian
  • Tetraselmis gracilis (Kylin) Butcher
  • Tetraselmis hazeni Butcher
  • Tetraselmis impellucida (McLachlan & Parke) Norris, Hori & Chihara
  • Tetraselmis inconspicua Butcher
  • Tetraselmis levis Butcher
  • Tetraselmis maculata Butcher
  • Tetraselmis marina (Cienkowski) R. E. Norris, Hori & Chihara
  • Tetraselmis micropapillata
  • Tetraselmis rubens Butcher
  • Tetraselmis striata Butcher
  • Tetraselmis suecica (Kylin) Butcher
  • Tetraselmis tetrabrachia inedit.
  • Tetraselmis tetrathele (West) Bucher
  • Tetraselmis verrucosa Butcher
  • Tetraselmis wettsteinii (Schiller) Throndsen

References

  1. ↑ Semmler, H; Bailly, X; Wanninger, A (Sep 2008), "Myogenesis in the basal bilaterian Symsagittifera roscoffensis (Acoela)" (Free full text), Frontiers in zoology 5: 14, doi:10.1186/1742-9994-5-14, PMC 2562460, PMID 18803837 
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