Survey of the botanical Phyla
Dinophyta ![[audio pronunciation]](../sounds/speaker.gif)
Common name
Dinoflagellates
Synonyms
Pyrrhophyta
Mode of nutrition
Autotrophic: brown chloroplasts (secondary), or heterotrophic by ingestion
Habitat
Marine, freshwater
Growth habit
Unicellular
Cell wall
Cellulose or none
Undulipodia (“flagella”)
Ordinarily two whiplash, one in equatorial groove and one in longitudinal groove
Food storage
Chrysolaminarin
Clonal reproduction
Mitosis by unicells
Sexual reproduction
Poorly known in many species, some with complex sexual cycles
Representative genera
Ceratium, Gonyaulax, Noctiluca, Peridinium, Pfiesteria
Recognized by
Grooves for flagella