Amphidinium sphenoides Wulff, 1916
Amphidinium sphenoides
Photographer/artist Sirpa Lehtinen
Additional image information
- Title
- Amphidinium sphenoides
- Photographer/artist
- Sirpa Lehtinen
- Copyright holder
- Sirpa Lehtinen
- Institute
- SYKE Marine Research Centre
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Malin Mohlin
- Sampling date
- May 2014
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - Gulf of Finland
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- Not described
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238377
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52104
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238377
- Tropic type
- H
- Other remarks
- There are possibly closely related species (compare linked species)
Distribution: Barents sea, Atlantic, Skagerrak, Kattegat - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 30-65 µm, width 12-15 µm
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Hansen, G. & Larsen, J. 1992. Dinoflagellater i danske farvande. In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, p. 45-155.
Wulff, A. 1916. Ueber das Kleinplankton der Barentssee. Arbeiten der Deutschen wissenschaftlichen Kommision fü,r die internationale Meeresforschung. A. Aus dem Laboratorium fü,r internationale Meeresforschung in Kiel. Biologische Abteilung. No. 28: 95-125.
Biovolumes
Species | Amphidinium sphenoides |
---|---|
Author | Wulff 1916 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | GYMNODINIALES |
Trophy | HT |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/12*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 36x8.5 | 36x14 | 45x15 |
Height(h), µm | 36.0 | 36.0 | 45.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 8.5 | 14.0 | 15.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 681 | 1 846 | 2 649 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 99 | 252 | 354 |
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
- 2021-10-01 15:36:13 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Amphidinium sphenoides_4.jpg
- 2021-10-01 15:34:53 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Amphidinium sphenoides_4.jpg
- 2014-09-26 12:52:44 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Amphidinium sphenoides_2.jpg
- 2014-09-26 12:50:45 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Amphidinium sphenoides_2.jpg
- 2014-05-27 12:37:46 Malin Mohlin - Deleted media: Amphidinium sphenoides_2.png
- 2014-05-27 12:36:36 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Amphidinium sphenoides_3.png
- 2014-05-27 12:31:45 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Amphidinium sphenoides_3.png
- 2014-05-27 11:06:44 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Amphidinium sphenoides_2.png