Coelosphaerium minutissimum Lemmerm.

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Coelosphaerium minutissimum

Photographer/artist Regina Hansen

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Title
Coelosphaerium minutissimum
Photographer/artist
Regina Hansen
Copyright holder
Leibniz Institut fuer Ostseeforschung Warnemuende
Institute
Leibniz Institut fuer Ostseeforschung Warnemuende
Contributing organisation
HELCOM- PEG
Contributor
Regina Hansen
Geographic area
Baltic Sea - Central Baltic proper
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
Technique
Light microscopy
Preservation
Formaldehyde
Contrast enhancement
Phase contrast
Image galleries
HELCOM-PEG

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A

Biovolumes

Species Coelosphaerium minutissimum
Author Lemmermann 1900
Division CYANOPHYTA (CYANOBACTERIA)
Class Nostocophyceae (Cyanophyceae)
Order CHROOCOCCALES
Trophy AU
Geometric shape sphere
Formula p/6*d^3
Size class 1 2 3 4 5
Unit cell colony colony colony colony
Size range 1,4 1,4 1,4 1,4 1,4
Diameter(d1), µm 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4
No. of cells/counting unit 1 20 50 100 200
Calculated volume, µm3 1.4 29 72 144 287
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 0.3 6 15 30 61
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

  • 2015-07-19 20:18:49 Birger Skjelbred - Updated media metadata for Coelosphaerium minutissimum_2.jpg
  • 2015-07-19 20:16:48 Birger Skjelbred - Added media: Coelosphaerium minutissimum_2.jpg
  • 2015-04-23 11:13:25 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Coelosphaerium minutissimum_1.png
  • 2015-04-23 11:12:06 Regina Hansen - Added media: Coelosphaerium minutissimum_1.png