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Mesodinium rubrum red tides ciliate

Mesodinium rubrum is commonly referred to as red tides ciliate. Difficulty in the aquarium: Pas pour l'aquarium!.


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lexID:
7583 
AphiaID:
232069 
Scientific:
Mesodinium rubrum 
German:
Purpurrotes Wimperntierchen 
English:
Red Tides Ciliate 
Category:
 
Family tree:
Chromista (Kingdom) > Ciliophora (Phylum) > Litostomatea (Class) > Cyclotrichiida (Order) > Mesodiniidae (Family) > Mesodinium (Genus) > rubrum (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Lohmann, ), 1908 
Occurrence:
Circumglobal 
Size:
0.03" - 0" (0.075cm - 0.01cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Algae (Algivore) 
Difficulty:
Pas pour l'aquarium! 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Related species at
Catalog of Life
:
  • Mesodinium acarus
  • Mesodinium apsheronicum
  • Mesodinium cinctum
  • Mesodinium fimbriatum
  • Mesodinium pulex
  • Mesodinium pupula
  • Mesodinium pupulum
  • Mesodinium recurvum
  • Mesodinium siro
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2014-09-30 19:32:51 

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Mesodinium rubrum (Lohmann, 1908)

Mesodinium rubrum is a single-celled and autotrophic planktonic organism and a part of phytoplankton. This species feed on red chloroplasts from photosynthetic algae,wherefore Mesodinium rubrum is red in colour.A large quantities of the red Mesodinium rubrum can form coastal "red tides" . Red tides are a highly concentration of this red microscopic ciliate.
Mesodinium rubrum is distributed worldwide and scientists around the world are already focus on this autotrophic planktonic organism.

Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Alveolata (Infrakingdom) > Ciliophora (Phylum) > Intramacronucleata (Subphylum) > Rhabdophora (Infraphylum) > Litostomatea (Class) > Haptoria (Subclass) > Cyclotrichiida (Order) > Mesodiniidae (Family) > Mesodinium (Genus)

External links

  1. Algenblüte vor Heiligendamm (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Encyclodedia of Life (EOL) (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. nordicmicroalgae.org (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. red-tide.org (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  6. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Mesodinium rubrum,Poel/Timmendorf, Copyright Christopher Joest
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Mesodinium rubrum,Poel/Timmendorf, Copyright Christopher Joest
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