In this article we will discuss about the structure of ceratium. This will also help you to draw the structure and diagram of ceratium.
(1) It is a fresh water as well as a marine form and is free living.
(2) Body some what flattened and triradiate and is enclosed inside a shellot cellulose. The flagelia are two.
(3) Shell is produced into apicalantapicaiand lateral spines.
(4) The shell bears a transverse groove – the annulus and an oblique ventral groove the sulcus. Through each of the grooves traverses a flagellum.
(5) Nutrition holophytic because in the endoplasm are present numerous chromatophores.
(6) The apical spine also shelters a large oval nucleus.
(7) The endoplasm also contains large number of starch granules.
(8) Reproduction asexual and through oblique binary fission.