Cyclotella meneghiniana Kütz.

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Cyclotella meneghiniana

Photographer/artist Janina Kownacka

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Title
Cyclotella meneghiniana
Photographer/artist
Janina Kownacka
Copyright holder
Janina Kownacka
Institute
National Marine Fisheries Research Institute
Contributing organisation
HELCOM-PEG
Contributor
Janina Kownacka
Sampling date
June 2005
Geographic area
Baltic Sea - The Gulf of Gdansk
Location
Vistula River outlet
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
Technique
Light microscopy
Preservation
Lugols iodine
Stain
No stain
Image galleries
HELCOM-PEG

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A

Biovolumes

Species Cyclotella meneghiniana
Author Kützing 1844
Division CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA)
Class Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae)
Order EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES)
Trophy AU
Geometric shape cylinder
Formula p/4*d^2*h
Size class 1 2 3 4 5 6
Unit cell cell cell cell cell cell
Size range 7-12 12-18 18-23 23-28 28-33 33-38
Height(h), µm 8.4 15.4 16.8 22.4 28.0 22.4
Diameter(d1), µm 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0 30.0 35.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 659 2 720 5 275 10 990 19 782 21 540
Comment 6 6 6 6 6 6
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 56 176 301 545 878 941

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

  • 2013-04-26 12:26:47 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Cyclotella meneghiniana_1.jpg
  • 2013-04-26 12:25:20 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Cyclotella meneghiniana_1.jpg