Amylax triacantha (E. Jørgensen) Sournia, 1984
Amylax tricantha
Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik
Additional image information
- Title
- Amylax tricantha
- Photographer/artist
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Copyright holder
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Institute
- SMHI
- Contributor
- Malin Mohlin
- 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: 238212
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52120
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238212
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Form and hypotheca with one to several spines. Chloroplasts redish
- Other remarks
Distribution: Pacific and Atlantic oceans, cold water species- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 25-35 µm, width 17-30 µm
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Dodge, J. D. 1989. Some revisions of the family Gonyaulacaceae (Dinophyceae) based on a scanning electron microscope study. Botanica Marina. 32: 275-298.
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.
Steidinger, K. A. & Tangen, K. 1996. Dinoflagellates. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 387-584.
Biovolumes
Species | Amylax triacantha |
---|---|
Author | (E. Jørgensen) Sournia 1984 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | GONYAULACALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/12*d^2*(h+d/2)*0,75 |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 35-45x23-26 | 45-55x27-30 | 35-45x34-37 | 47-57x35-40 |
Height(h), µm | 40.0 | 50.0 | 40.0 | 52.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 25.0 | 29.0 | 35.0 | 38.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 6 439 | 10 645 | 13 823 | 20 120 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 815 | 1 306 | 1 669 | 2 374 |
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
- 2015-04-08 11:09:58 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Amylax triacantha_6.jpg
- 2015-04-08 11:09:03 Susanne Busch - Added media: Amylax triacantha_6.jpg
- 2014-09-26 12:57:12 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Amylax triacantha_5.jpg
- 2014-09-26 12:54:43 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Amylax triacantha_5.jpg
- 2014-07-14 08:45:12 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Amylax triacantha_4.png
- 2014-07-14 08:44:05 Regina Hansen - Added media: Amylax triacantha_4.png
- 2012-09-24 13:13:00 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Amylax triacantha_3.JPG
- 2012-09-24 13:12:18 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Amylax triacantha_3.JPG
- 2011-10-03 08:22:38 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Amylax triacantha_2.jpg
- 2011-10-03 08:21:53 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Amylax triacantha_2.jpg