Tetraselmis
| Tetraselmis | |
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| 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. 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
- ↑ 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