Ceratium furca (Ehrenberg) Claparède & Lachmann, 1859
Ceratium furca
Widely distributed. Cells are 210-380µm long and 35-50 wide. (Marine Phytoplankton: Mona hoppenrath 2009)
Photographer/artist Regina Hansen
Additional image information
- Title
- Ceratium furca
- Photographer/artist
- Regina Hansen
- Institute
- Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Regina Hansen
- Caption
- Widely distributed. Cells are 210-380µm long and 35-50 wide. (Marine Phytoplankton: Mona hoppenrath 2009)
- Geographic area
- Kattegat - off shore
- 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
Synonym names
- Neoceratium furca
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238300
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52149
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238300
- Morphology
- Body straight, epitheca tapering gradually into anterior horn
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Solitary or in pairs
- Size
- Length 70-200 µm, width 30-50 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.
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 | Ceratium furca |
|---|---|
| Author | (Ehrenberg) Claparède & Lachmann 1859 |
| Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
| Class | Dinophyceae |
| Order | GONYAULACALES |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | 2.3038*d^2.532 |
| Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell | cell |
| Size range | width: 35-45 | width: 45-55 | width: 55-65 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 40.0 | 50.0 | 60.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 26 234 | 46 157 | 73 236 |
| Comment | 5; 6 | 5; 6 | 5; 6 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 3 046 | 5 178 | 7 988 |
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
- 2018-04-27 10:11:08 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Ceratium furca_4.png
- 2018-04-27 10:03:14 Regina Hansen - Added media: Ceratium furca_4.png
- 2012-09-29 03:28:37 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Ceratium furca_3.jpg
- 2012-09-24 10:12:04 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Ceratium furca_3.jpg
- 2012-09-24 10:11:10 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Ceratium furca_3.jpg
- 2012-09-17 15:39:20 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Ceratium furca_2.jpg
- 2012-09-17 15:37:31 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Ceratium furca_2.jpg
- 2011-09-25 15:59:04 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Ceratium furca_1193671796.gif
