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Citation: Pavlova ennorea van der Veer&Leewis 1977Taxonomic rank: speciesType locality: Type collected the 20th of May 1967, from a saltmarsh near Polbathick, Cornwall,England; culture nr 6758(Van der Veer).Farinacci catalog page (& compiler): n/a Current citation: Pavlova ennorea (van der Veer and Leewis 1977) Bendif & Veron, in Bendif et al. 2011
Original Description Sedentary cells forming palmelloid colonies, kneecap-shaped, 6-9 µm diam., often flattened if touching each other. Chloroplast single, parietal, yellow-green, without stigma, with two large lobes and a protruding pyrenoid. Nucleus excentrically positioned. Golgi body single. Deposits of lipid, paramylon and polyphosphate. Motile cells elongate, 6-9 x 3-4 µm. Two unequal flagella, 13 µm and 5 µm, and a short slender haptonema inserted at some distance from the anterior end of the cell body. System of flagellar roots with several roots near the nucleus and eight parallel microtubules running away from the nucleus. Pit with lateral inflations entering the interior of the cell near the flagellar insertion. Extra details from original publication The organism differs from all Pavlova species that are examined in the electron microscope, in lacking the characteristic dense particles on the long flagellum. In other respects the external flagellar apparatus is typically Pavlova-like (Green & Manton 1970. Green 1973, Billard 1975, van der Veer 1976). The absence of minute dense particles on the surface of the cellbody is shared with P. virescens (Billard 1975) and P. calceolata (van der Veer 1976).
References:
Van Der Veer, J. & Leewis, R. J. (1977). Pavlova ennorea sp. nov., a haptophycean alga with a dominant palmelloid phase, from England. Acta Botanica Neerlandica. 26: 159-176. gs
Pavlova ennorea: Catalog entry compiled by Jeremy Young. Viewed: 17-2-2025