Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst
Coscinodiscus wailesii
A = Valve face; B = Girdle; C= Marginal zone of valve with two rows of labiate processes; D = Valve face with scattered labiate processes; E = Central area; F&G = Marginal zone of valve with row of labiate processes. (BF).
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Coscinodiscus wailesii
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = Valve face; B = Girdle; C= Marginal zone of valve with two rows of labiate processes; D = Valve face with scattered labiate processes; E = Central area; F&G = Marginal zone of valve with row of labiate processes. (BF).
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237425
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37722
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237425
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- A flat disc and mostly with a hyaline central area, wide interstriae. Two rings of labiate processes near valve margin and scattered labiate processes on valve face
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely in temperate waters- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Diameter = 230-370 µm (50 - 550 µm in cultures according to Schmid (1990))
- Resting spore
- 0
- 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.
Hasle, G. R. & Lange, C. B. 1992. Morphology and distribution of Coscinodiscus species from the Oslofjord, Norway, and the Skagerrak, North Atlantic. Diatom Research. 7: 37-68.
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.
Schmid, A.-M. 1990. Intraclonal variation in the valve structure of Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran et Angst. Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft. 100: 101-119.
Schmid, A.-M. & Volcani, B.E. 1983. Wall morphogenesis in Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran and Angst. I. Valve morphology and development of its architure. Journal of Phycology. 19: 387-402.
Biovolumes
Species | Coscinodiscus wailesii |
---|---|
Author | Gran & Angst 1931 |
Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 200-220 | 220-240 | 240-260 | 260-280 | 280-300 |
Height(h), µm | 140.0 | 200.0 | 160.0 | 200.0 | 200.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 210.0 | 240.0 | 250.0 | 270.0 | 290.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 4 846 590 | 9 043 200 | 7 850 000 | 11 445 300 | 13 203 700 |
Comment | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 76 082 | 126 174 | 112 495 | 152 735 | 171 505 |
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
- 2014-03-27 07:32:15 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Coscinodiscus wailesii_8.jpg
- 2014-03-27 07:31:38 Susanne Busch - Added media: Coscinodiscus wailesii_8.jpg
- 2014-03-27 07:31:23 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Coscinodiscus wailesii_7.jpg
- 2014-03-27 07:30:45 Susanne Busch - Added media: Coscinodiscus wailesii_7.jpg
- 2014-03-27 07:29:18 Susanne Busch - Deleted media: Coscinodiscus wailesii_7.jpg
- 2014-03-27 07:23:31 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Coscinodiscus wailesii_7.jpg
- 2014-03-27 07:22:42 Susanne Busch - Added media: Coscinodiscus wailesii_7.jpg
- 2013-05-14 07:22:00 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Coscinodiscus wailesii_6.jpg
- 2013-05-14 07:21:22 Regina Hansen - Added media: Coscinodiscus wailesii_6.jpg
- 2012-10-15 11:25:14 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Coscinodiscus wailesii_5.jpg
- 2012-10-15 11:24:39 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Coscinodiscus wailesii_5.jpg
- 2012-09-18 07:44:07 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Coscinodiscus wailesii_4.JPG
- 2012-09-18 07:43:49 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Coscinodiscus wailesii_4.JPG
- 2012-09-18 07:43:34 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Coscinodiscus wailesii_3.JPG
- 2012-09-18 07:43:01 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Coscinodiscus wailesii_3.JPG
- 2012-09-18 07:41:53 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Coscinodiscus wailesii_3.JPG
- 2011-09-23 20:35:52 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Coscinodiscus wailesii_2.gif
- 2011-09-23 20:34:57 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Coscinodiscus wailesii_2.gif