Ceratium fusus (Ehrenberg) Dujardin, 1841
Ceratium fusus
Living cells (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Ceratium fusus
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Living cells (BF)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Synonym names
- Neoceratium fusus
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238302
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 54755
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238302
- Morphology
- A long fusiform cell with rudimentary right hypothecal horn
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 200-540 µm, width 5-30 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 fusus |
|---|---|
| Author | (Ehrenberg) Dujardin 1841 |
| Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
| Class | Dinophyceae |
| Order | GONYAULACALES |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | 35.198*d^1.9156 |
| Size class | 1 | 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell |
| Size range | width: 15-25 | width: 25-35 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 20.0 | 30.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 10 934 | 23 773 |
| Comment | 5; 6 | 5; 6 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 339 | 2 777 |
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 12:30:29 Regina Hansen - Deleted media: Ceratium fusus_5.png
- 2015-04-08 11:14:05 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Ceratium fusus_6.jpg
- 2015-04-08 11:13:10 Susanne Busch - Added media: Ceratium fusus_6.jpg
- 2014-07-14 08:59:06 Regina Hansen - Added media: Ceratium fusus_5.png
- 2014-07-14 08:46:48 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Ceratium fusus_4.png
- 2014-07-14 08:45:51 Regina Hansen - Added media: Ceratium fusus_4.png
- 2012-09-17 15:44:41 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Ceratium fusus_3.jpg
- 2012-09-17 15:43:04 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Ceratium fusus_3.jpg
- 2012-09-17 15:42:39 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Ceratium fusus_3.jpg
- 2012-02-21 12:38:32 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Ceratium fusus_2.jpg
- 2012-02-21 12:37:03 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Ceratium fusus_2.jpg
