Dictyocha speculum Ehrenberg, 1839

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Dictyocha speculum

going "naked"?

Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik

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Title
Dictyocha speculum
Photographer/artist
Ann-Turi Skjevik
Copyright holder
Ann-Turi Skjevik
Copyright stamp
Ann-Turi Skjevik
Institute
SMHI
Contributor
Malin Mohlin
Caption
going "naked"?
Geographic area
Skagerrak - Swedish coast
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
Technique
Light microscopy
Preservation
No preservation
Contrast enhancement
DIC/Nomarski
Stain
No stain
Image galleries
Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
Skeleton-bearing stage usually with hexagonal skeleton. Naked stage. Both stages with many chloroplasts
Other remarks
Naked stages and life history (see Henriksen et al.1993)
Distribution: Widely in cold and temperate waters
Life form
Solitary flagellate
Size
19-34 µm (including spines)
Culture collections
SCCAP
The Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa at the University of Copenhagen
More info at http://www.sccap.dk.
Strains: K-0036
Literature
Boney, A. D.1973. Observations on the silicoflagellate Dictyocha speculum Ehrenb. from the Firth of Clyde. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 53: 263-268.
Henriksen, P., Knipschildt, F., Moestrup, Ø. & Thomsen, H. A. 1993. Autecology, life history and toxicology of the silicoflagellate Dictyocha speculum (Silicoflagellata, Dictyochophyceae). Phycologia. 32: 29-39.
Throndsen, J. 1993. The planktonic marine flagellates. In: Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids/edited by Carmelo R. Tomas: 7-145.
Gemeinhardt, K.1930. Silicoflagellatae. Schiller, J. Coccolithineae. Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora., 10: 1-85

Biovolumes

Species Dictyocha speculum
Author Ehrenberg 1839
Division CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA)
Class Dictyochophyceae
Order DICTYOCHALES
Trophy AU
Geometric shape half sphere
Formula p/12*d^3
Size class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Unit cell cell cell cell cell cell cell
Size range 20 25 35 20 16 11-15 6-10
Diameter(d1), µm 20.0 25.0 35.0 20.0 16.0 13.0 8.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 2 093 4 089 11 219 4 187 2 144 1 150 268
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 284 532 1 372 544 290 162 41

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

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  • 2022-11-11 10:23:06 Maria Karlberg - Updated media metadata for Dictyocha speculum_11.png
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  • 2017-10-12 14:04:52 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Dictyocha speculum_7.jpg
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