Dinophysis rotundata Claperède & Lachmann, 1859
Dinophysis rotundata
cell size: 52x42µm
Photographer/artist Janina Kownacka
Additional image information
- Title
- Dinophysis rotundata
- Photographer/artist
- Janina Kownacka
- Copyright holder
- Janina Kownacka
- Institute
- National Marine Fisheries Research Institute
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Janina Kownacka
- Caption
- cell size: 52x42µm
- Sampling date
- June 2012
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - The Gulf of Gdansk
- Location
- Gdynia
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Synonym names
- Phalacroma rotundatum
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238470
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52266
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238470
- Tropic type
- H
- Other remarks
- This species is nonphotosynthetic. It can ingest ciliates (Hansen 1991)
Distribution: Worldwide - Harmfulness, IOC
- This species is included in the IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae.
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 36-56 µm, width 40-45 µm
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Hansen, P. J. 1991. Dinophysis - a planktonic dinoflagellate genus which can act both as prey and a predator of a ciliate. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 69: 201-204.
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.
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 rotundata |
|---|---|
| Author | Claperède & Lachmann 1859 |
| Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
| Class | Dinophyceae |
| Order | DINOPHYSALES |
| Trophy | HT |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/6*l*d1*d2 |
| Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell |
| Size range | 30-35 | 35-40 | 40-45 | 45-55 |
| Length(l1), µm | 32.5 | 37.0 | 43.0 | 50.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 29.3 | 33.3 | 38.7 | 45.0 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 8.1 | 9.3 | 10.8 | 12.5 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 4 042 | 5 964 | 9 362 | 14 719 |
| Comment | 3; 7; HD fact.=0,25 | 3; 7; HD fact.=0,25 | 3; 7; HD fact.=0,25 | 3; 7; HD fact.=0,25 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 526 | 758 | 1 158 | 1 770 |
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
- 2015-04-08 11:49:07 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_8.jpg
- 2015-04-08 11:48:28 Susanne Busch - Added media: Dinophysis rotundata_8.jpg
- 2015-04-08 11:48:01 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_7.jpg
- 2015-04-08 11:47:24 Susanne Busch - Added media: Dinophysis rotundata_7.jpg
- 2014-09-26 13:32:28 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_6.jpg
- 2014-09-26 13:31:16 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Dinophysis rotundata_6.jpg
- 2014-09-26 13:30:36 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_5.jpg
- 2014-09-26 13:29:11 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_5.jpg
- 2014-09-26 13:26:22 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Dinophysis rotundata_5.jpg
- 2014-06-02 10:49:42 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_4.jpg
- 2014-06-02 10:40:25 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_4.jpg
- 2014-06-02 10:39:21 Regina Hansen - Added media: Dinophysis rotundata_4.jpg
- 2012-11-15 11:41:36 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Dinophysis rotundata_4.jpg
- 2012-10-28 13:28:22 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_4.jpg
- 2012-10-28 13:27:48 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Dinophysis rotundata_4.jpg
- 2012-09-14 11:34:50 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_3.gif
- 2012-09-14 11:34:41 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Dinophysis rotundata_3.gif
- 2012-05-14 21:02:04 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_2.jpg
- 2012-05-14 20:58:27 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_2.jpg
- 2012-05-14 20:55:22 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Dinophysis rotundata_2.jpg
- 2011-10-04 06:56:12 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_1.gif
- 2011-10-03 21:22:30 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Dinophysis rotundata_1.gif
- 2011-10-03 21:21:23 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Dinophysis rotundata_1.gif
