Abstract: A new species of the marine dinophyte genus Heterocapsa Stein is described. Two clonal strains originating from Argentinean coastal waters were examined with light and electron microscopy and LSU and ITS rDNA sequence data were obtained. Heterocapsa claromecoensis sp. nov. is described as a distinctive species with a conical epitheca, a similar sized and rounded hypotheca, a single reticulate chloroplast situated in the periphery of the cell, and a large pyrenoid in the episome, above an ellipsoidal to rounded nucleus in the hyposome. The plate...
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