Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg was a German naturalist, zoologist, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. He was one of the most productive and renowned scientists of his time an
Portrait by Eduard Radke, c. 1855
Dinoflagellate
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The dinoflagellates, also called dinophytes, are a monophyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata and are usually considered protists. Dinoflagellates are mostly
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
…particularly interested in a unicellular group of protists called diatoms, but he also studied, and named, many species of radiolaria, foraminifera and dinoflagellates. This research had an important bearing on some of the infusorial earths used for polishing and other economic purposes; they added, moreover, largely…
Ceratium hirundinella
1. Ornithocercus; 2. diagram; 3. Exuviaella; 4. Prorocentrum; 5, 6. Ceratium; 7. Warnowia; 8. Citharistes; 9. Polykrikos
Dinophytic microalga isolated from sediments of Amur Bay
Algal bloom (akasio) by Noctiluca spp. in Nagasaki