Asterionellopsis glacialis (Castracane) Round in Round et al., 1990

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Asterionellopsis glacialis

Chain at two focal planes (BF)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Asterionellopsis glacialis
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
Chain at two focal planes (BF)
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
The shape of cell
Other remarks

Distribution: Worldwide
Size
Length 30-150 µm
Literature
Cupp, E. E. 1943. Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America. Bulletin of the Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. of the University of California. 5: 1-237.
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.
Hasle, G. R. & Syvertsen, E. E. 1996. Marine diatoms. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 5-385.

Biovolumes

Species Asterionellopsis glacialis
Author (Castracane) Round in Round, Crawford & D.G. Mann 1990
Division CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA)
Class Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae)
Order BACILLARIALES (PENNALES)
Trophy AU
Geometric shape cone + half sphere - 40%
Formula p/12*d^2*(h+d/2)*0.6
Size class 1 2 3
Unit cell cell cell
Size range 8x70 10x90 12x100
Height(h), µm 70.0 90.0 100.0
Diameter(d1), µm 8.0 10.0 12.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 744 1 492 2 396
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 61 108 159

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

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