Aphanizomenon Morren ex Bornet & Flahault
Aphanizomenon sp.
Single filament of Baltic Aphanizomenon sp. (width 4.4 µm), with one hyaline end and one heterocyte in the middle of the filament.
Photographer/artist Helena Höglander
Additional image information
- Title
- Aphanizomenon sp.
- Photographer/artist
- Helena Höglander
- Copyright holder
- Helena Höglander
- Copyright stamp
- Helena Höglander
- Institute
- Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Helena Höglander
- Caption
- Single filament of Baltic Aphanizomenon sp. (width 4.4 µm), with one hyaline end and one heterocyte in the middle of the filament.
- Sampling date
- 2009-05-19
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - Northern Baltic proper
- Location
- Landsort Deep, BY31
- Latitude, degree
- 58
- Latitude, minute
- 35.9
- Longitude, degree
- 18
- Longitude, minute
- 14.21
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Contrast enhancement
- Phase contrast
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Description
Subordinate taxa
Biovolumes
Species | Aphanizomenon |
---|---|
Division | CYANOPHYTA (CYANOBACTERIA) |
Class | Nostocophyceae (Cyanophyceae) |
Order | NOSTOCALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | filament | filament | filament | filament | filament |
Size range | 4x100 | 2x100 | 2.5x100 | 3x100 | 5x100 |
Height(h), µm | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 4.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 5.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 11 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 11 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 1 256 | 314 | 491 | 707 | 1 963 |
Comment | 2 | ||||
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 203 | 57 | 86 | 121 | 309 |
Comment on Carbon calculation | based on individual cell | based on individual cell | based on individual cell | based on individual cell | based on individual cell |
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
- 2015-04-24 06:39:29 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Aphanizomenon_5.jpg
- 2015-04-24 06:38:42 Susanne Busch - Added media: Aphanizomenon_5.jpg
- 2015-04-24 06:38:06 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Aphanizomenon_4.jpg
- 2015-04-24 06:36:50 Susanne Busch - Added media: Aphanizomenon_4.jpg
- 2015-04-23 11:00:15 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Aphanizomenon_3.png
- 2015-04-23 10:53:20 Regina Hansen - Added media: Aphanizomenon_3.png
- 2012-02-21 11:50:29 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Aphanizomenon_2.jpg
- 2012-02-21 11:41:51 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Added media: Aphanizomenon_2.jpg
- 2012-02-21 07:30:52 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Aphanizomenon_1.jpg
- 2012-02-21 07:30:02 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Aphanizomenon_1.jpg
- 2012-02-21 07:13:46 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Added media: Aphanizomenon_1.jpg