Acanthoica quattrospina Lohmann, 1903
Acanthoica quattrospina
Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik
Additional image information
- Title
- Acanthoica quattrospina
- Photographer/artist
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Copyright holder
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Institute
- SMHI
- Contributor
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Sampling date
- 20101103
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Contrast enhancement
- DIC/Nomarski
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 236952
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 54915
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 236952
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Pole spines and size of coccolith case
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- length = 7.5-13 µm, width = 6-9.5 µm
- Literature
- Halldal, P. & Markali, J. 1955. Electron microscope studies on Coccolithophorids from the Norwegian Sea, the Gulf Stream and the Mediterranean. Norske Vidensk.-Akad.Mat.-Nat. 1: 1-30.
Heimdal, B. R. 1993. Modern Coccolithophorids. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids. p. 147-247.
Lohmann, H. 1903. Neue untersuchungen ü,ber den Reichtum des Meeres an Plankton und ü,ber die Brauchbarkeit der verschiedenen Fangmethoden. Zugleich auch ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Mittelmeerauftriebs. Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen herausgegeben von der Kommision zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der Deutschen Meere in Kiel und der Biologische Anstalt auf Helgoland N. F. 7: 1-87.
Biovolumes
Species | Acanthoica quattrospina |
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Author | Lohmann 1903 |
Division | HAPTOPHYTA |
Class | Prymnesiophyceae (Haptophyceae) |
Order | PRYMNESIALES |
Trophy | MX |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/6*d^2*l |
Size class | 1 |
---|---|
Unit | cell |
Size range | 7-8x14 |
Length(l1), µm | 14.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 7.5 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 412 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 62 |
Source
Olenina, I., Hajdu, S., Edler, L., Andersson, A., Wasmund, N., Busch, S., Göbel, J.,
Gromisz, S., Huseby, S., Huttunen, M., Jaanus, A., Kokkonen, P., Ledaine, I. and Niemkiewicz,
E.
2006 Biovolumes and size-classes of phytoplankton in the Baltic Sea HELCOM Balt.Sea Environ. Proc. No. 106, 144pp. (PDF),
PEG_BVOL.zip
Change History
- 2013-11-01 12:23:29 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Acanthoica quattrospina_4.jpg
- 2013-11-01 12:21:26 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Acanthoica quattrospina_4.jpg
- 2013-11-01 12:20:51 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Acanthoica quattrospina_4.jpg
- 2011-10-03 08:00:33 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Acanthoica quattrospina_4.jpg
- 2011-10-03 07:58:05 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Acanthoica quattrospina_4.jpg
- 2011-09-26 19:02:38 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Acanthoica quattrospina_3.gif
- 2011-09-26 19:01:47 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Acanthoica quattrospina_3.gif
- 2011-09-26 19:00:54 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Acanthoica quattrospina_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 18:59:56 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Acanthoica quattrospina_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 18:58:40 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Acanthoica quattrospina_2.gif