Pedinella is a genus of small, unicellular planktonic or attached, flagellatedheterokonts first described in 1888 by A. V. Vysotskij.[1] The genus is monospecific, and the single species is Pedinella hexacostata Vysotskij.[1]Pedinella has an inverted bell or apple shape with a stalk arising from the posterior end, and has a single, long, ribbon-like, apical flagellum and, a second apical flagellum that is reduced to its basal body.[1][2] The cells are radially symmetrical, with a large central nucleus, surrounded equatorially by a number of chloroplasts that cause the body to bulge out where the plastids are pushed up against the plasma membrane.[1][2] The organism is found in freshwater and brackish freshwater habitats. Pedinella is a mixotroph and functions through either photosynthesis or by ingesting organic substances from its environment.
^ abcdJohn, D. I.; Whitton, Brian A.; Brook, Alan J. (2002). The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles: an identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-5217-7051-4.
^ abLee, Robert E. (1999). Phycology. Cambridge, [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0-5216-3883-8.
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