Lectotype: Dinobryon sertularia Ehrenberg
Original publication:Ehrenberg, C.G. (1834). Dritter Beitrag zur Erkenntniss grosser Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1833: 145-336, pls I-XIII
Type designated in Fromentel, É. de (1874). Études sur les microzoaires, ou infusoires proprement dits: comprenant de nouvelles recherches sur leur organisation, leur classification et la description des espèces nouvelles ou peu connues / par E. de Fromentel ; planches et notes descriptives des espèces par J. Jobard-Muteau. pp. i-vii, 1-364. Paris: G. Masson, Éditeur
Asexual: longitudinal division; one daughter cell settles on the mother cell lorica or escaping.
Sexual reproduction observed; a male gamete without lorica approaches a colony fusing with a loricate female cell, forming a zygotic cyst
From: http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=43781&-session=ab...
Highly phagotrophic, and their predation on bacteria can play a significant role in the limnetic food web (Veen, 1991), can cover most of its P-requirements and can thus compete in phosphorus-poor waters.
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| Type | Chloroplast | Plastid | Aerotopes | Valves | Striae |
| Shape | 2, one with a distinct stigma in juxtaposition to photoreceptor on the short flagellum, yellow-green to yellow or golden brown | None | n/a | n/a | |
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One large Golgi body visible by light microscopy in the front part of the cell.
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| Type | Vegetative Cell | Apical Cell | Heterocyst | Akinete | Tricome | Filament |
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freshwater