Calliacantha natans (Grøntved) Leadbeater, 1978
Calliacantha natans
Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik
Additional image information
- Title
- Calliacantha natans
- Photographer/artist
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Copyright holder
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Institute
- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, oceanographic unit
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- DIC/Nomarski
- Stain
- No stain
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238102
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 56448
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238102
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Lorica with two transverse costae, three spines protruding anteriorly
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Lorica length 17-26 µm
- Literature
- Gröntved, J.1956. Planktological contributions II. Taxonomical studies in some danish coastal localities. Medd. Danm. Fisk. Havunders., N. S. I (12): 1-13
Leadbeater, B. S. C.1978. Renaming of Salpingoeca sensu Grøntved. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 58: 511-515.
Thomsen, H. A. 1992b. Loricabærende Chonanoflagellater (Kraveflagellater). In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, p. 157-194.
Throndsen, J. 1993. The planktonic marine flagellates. In: (Tomas eds.) Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 7-145.
Biovolumes
Species | Calliacantha natans |
---|---|
Author | (Gröntved 1956) Leadbeater 1978 |
Division | ZOOMASTIGOPHORA |
Class | Choanoflagellidea |
Order | CHOANOFLAGELLIDA |
Trophy | HT |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/6*d^2*l |
Size class | 1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell |
Size range | 4-8x3-5 | 8-12x3-5 |
Length(l1), µm | 6.0 | 10.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 4.0 | 4.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 50 | 84 |
Comment | 10 | 10 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 8.5 | 13.8 |
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
- 2019-03-05 09:24:25 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_5.jpg
- 2019-03-05 09:21:53 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Calliacantha natans_5.jpg
- 2018-05-30 09:44:12 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_4.png
- 2018-05-02 11:55:53 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_4.png
- 2018-05-02 11:45:18 Regina Hansen - Added media: Calliacantha natans_4.png
- 2012-09-20 13:08:57 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2012-09-20 13:08:47 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2012-09-20 13:07:40 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2012-09-20 13:07:25 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2012-09-20 13:07:12 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2012-09-20 13:06:09 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2012-09-20 13:05:24 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2012-09-20 13:05:08 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2012-09-20 13:04:13 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_1203514513.jpg
- 2012-09-20 13:03:34 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_1203514513.jpg
- 2012-09-20 12:59:57 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Calliacantha natans_5.jpg
- 2012-09-20 12:59:36 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Calliacantha natans_4.jpg
- 2012-09-20 12:59:09 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2011-10-13 11:34:33 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_4.jpg
- 2011-10-13 11:33:40 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2011-10-13 11:33:12 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_5.jpg
- 2011-10-13 11:32:48 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Calliacantha natans_5.jpg
- 2011-10-13 11:32:23 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_4.jpg
- 2011-10-13 11:32:09 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Calliacantha natans_4.jpg
- 2011-10-13 11:31:17 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2011-10-13 11:30:51 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Calliacantha natans_3.jpg
- 2011-09-26 19:51:44 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Calliacantha natans_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 19:50:37 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Calliacantha natans_2.gif