Takayama tasmanica

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Takayama tasmanica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Alveolata
Phylum: Myzozoa
Superclass: Dinoflagellata
Class: Dinophyceae
Order: Gymnodiniales
Family: Kareniaceae
Genus: Takayama
Species:
T. tasmanica
Binomial name
Takayama tasmanica
De Salas et al., 2003

Takayama tasmanica is a species of dinoflagellate with sigmoid apical grooves first found in Tasmanian and South African waters. [1] It contains fucoxanthin and its derivatives as its main accessory pigments.

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Takayama tasmanica is similar to Gymnodinium pulchellum in its external morphology, however it differs from them by having two ventral pores, a large horseshoe-shaped nucleus, and its characteristic central pyrenoid with radiating chloroplasts passing through its nucleus. It possesses gyroxanthin-diester and a gyroxanthin-like accessory pigment, which are missing in its sister species T. helix. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 De salas, Miguel F.; Bolch, Christopher J. S.; Botes, Lizeth; Nash, Geraldine; Wright, Simon W.; Hallegraeff, Gustaaf M. (2003). "Takayama Gen. Nov. (Gymnodiniales, Dinophyceae), A New Genus of Unarmored Dinoflagellates with Sigmoid Apical Grooves, Including the Description of Two New Species1". Journal of Phycology. 39 (6): 1233–1246. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3646.2003.03-019.x. ISSN   0022-3646. S2CID   85272820.

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