Life-form: Solitary
Size: Length18-20 µm, width 6.5-7.5 µm.
Resting spore:
Note: It could easily be confused with Oxytoxum gracile in this checklist (cf. Schiller 1933, Fig. 263b)
Distinctive features: Form and many small chloroplasts
Similar species:
Distribution: Adria, Kattegat
Literature:
Hansen, G. & Larsen, J. 1992. Dinoflagellater i danske farvande.
In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande.
Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, p. 45-155.
Schiller, J. 1933. Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae) in monographischer Behandlung. Teil 1. In Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora. 10, III: 617 pp.