Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) Gómez, 2013

Nunes, Caio Ceza da Silva, Susini-Ribeiro, Sylvia Maria Moreira & Cavalcante, Kaoli Pereira, 2019, Dinoflagellates in tropical estuarine waters from the Maraú River, Camamu Bay, northeastern Brazil, Check List 15 (5), pp. 951-963 : 954

Tripos furca (Ehrenberg) Gómez, 2013

Figure 2B

Brazil, estuary of Maraú River: River Zone Station 1, 14°06′33″S, 039°02′48″W, VII.2007 (HUESC 24078); Mixing Zone Station 2, 14°04′52″S, 038°59′12″W, VII. 2007 (HUESC 24078); Mixing Zone Station 3, 13°57′24″S, 038°59′38″W, V.2007 (HUESC 24072), IX.2006 (HUESC 24040); Coastal Zone Station 4, 13°54′56″S, 038°58′57″W, XI.2006 (HUESC 24049), XII.2006 (HUESC 24053), II. 2007 (HUESC 24061), III.2007 (HUESC 24065), V.2007 (HUESC 24073), VI.2007 (HUESC 24077), VII.2007 (HUESC 24081).

Narrow, long cell body, epitheca conical, gradually tapered into a cylindrical apical horn, Cingulum excavated, two parallel antapical horns of variable length, the right antapical horn being smaller than the left one. TL: 162.5–177.5 μ m (171.7 ± 8.04 μm), EL: 82.5–100

μm (92.8 ± 9.17 μm), CW: 30–37.5 μm (34.2 ± 3.82 μm), RAH: 30–42.5 μm (35.8 ± 6.29 μm), LAH: 70–80 μm (74.2 ± 5.20 μm) (n = 15).

Distribution in Brazil: widely distributed along the Brazilian coastal region ( Flora do Brasil 2019).