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Description:

Gambierdiscus (gam-beer-disk-us) toxicus, a toxic dinoflagellate with chloroplasts. With two flagella, but only one (the trailing flagellum) visible here. Small lobes of the plastid extend to the surface of the cell. Armoured, with fairly thick thecal plates. Flattened and this view is more or less polar. Mostly associated with sediments of warmer waters. Differential interference microscopy.

data on this strain.