Dinophysis dens Pavillard, 1915
Dinophysis dens
A living cell (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Dinophysis dens
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A living cell (DIC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238463
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52230
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238463
- Tropic type
- A/H
- Morphology
- The shape of hypocone
- Other remarks
- Probably part in the life history of D. acuta (Mackenzie 1992)
Distribution: Worldwide - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 45-59 µm, width 30 µm
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Hansen, G. & Larsen, J. 1992. Dinoflagellater i danske farvande. In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, p. 45-155.
MacKenzie, L. 1992. Does Dinophysis (Dinophyceae) have a sexual life cycle. Journal of Phycology. 28: 399-406.
Steidinger, K. A. & Tangen, K. 1996. Dinoflagellates. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 387-584.
Biovolumes
| Species | Dinophysis dens |
|---|---|
| Author | Pavillard 1915 |
| Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
| Class | Dinophyceae |
| Order | DINOPHYSALES |
| Trophy | MX |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/6*l*d1*d2 |
| Size class | 1 |
|---|---|
| Unit | cell |
| Size range | 45-50 |
| Length(l1), µm | 48.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 28.0 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 19.6 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 13 786 |
| Comment | HD fact.=0.7 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 665 |
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 15:52:05 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis dens_2.jpg
- 2012-02-21 15:51:48 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Dinophysis dens_2.jpg
