Dictyocha fibula Ehrenberg, 1839
Dictyocha fibula
Skeleton (SEM).
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Dictyocha fibula
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Copyright stamp
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- Dept. of Marine botany, University of Gothenburg
- Contributing organisation
- University of Gothenburg
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Skeleton (SEM).
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Preservation
- Not described
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237176
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52816
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237176
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Skeleton with four protruding spines and with four """"windows
- Ecology
- There is a naked stage of this organism. The ecologicla role is unknown.
- Other remarks
Distribution: Atlantic ocean, Mediterranean, Baltic, the coast of Chile- Life form
- Solitary flagellate
- Size
- 10-45 µm (including spines)
- Literature
- Gemeinhardt, K.1930. Silicoflagellatae. Schiller, J. Coccolithineae. Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora., 10: 1-85
González, H.1985. Taxonomical survey on silicoflagellates in central Chile. Nova Hedwigia. 41: 483-.
Throndsen, J. 1993. The planktonic marine flagellates. In: Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids/edited by Carmelo R. Tomas: 7-145.
Valkenburg, S. D. van. & Norris, R. E. 1970. The growth and morphology of the silicoflagellate Dictyocha fibula Ehrenberg in culture. Journal of Phycology. 6: 48-54.
Biovolumes
| Species | Dictyocha fibula |
|---|---|
| Author | Ehrenberg 1839 |
| Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
| Class | Dictyochophyceae |
| Order | DICTYOCHALES |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/12*d^3 |
| Size class | 1 | 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell |
| Size range | 16 | 25-35 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 16.0 | 30.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 1 072 | 7 065 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 151 | 889 |
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
- 2012-02-21 15:57:16 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Dictyocha fibula_4.jpg
- 2012-02-21 15:56:56 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Dictyocha fibula_4.jpg
- 2012-02-21 15:56:32 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Dictyocha fibula_4.jpg
- 2011-12-14 09:26:05 Bengt Karlson - Updated facts
- 2011-12-05 16:19:37 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Dictyocha fibula_3.jpg
- 2011-12-05 16:18:56 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Dictyocha fibula_3.jpg
- 2011-09-26 18:46:35 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Dictyocha fibula_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 18:45:23 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Dictyocha fibula_2.gif
- 2011-09-16 19:03:32 Bengt Karlson - Deleted media: Dictyocha fibula_1195225391.jpg
