Ditylum brightwellii (T. West) Grunow in Van Heurck, 1883
Ditylum brightwellii
Photographer/artist Lisa Karlson
Additional image information
- Title
- Ditylum brightwellii
- Photographer/artist
- Lisa Karlson
- Copyright holder
- Lisa Karlson
- Contributor
- Lisa Karlson
- Geographic area
- Kattegat - Swedish coast
- Location
- Örsviken
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Contrast enhancement
- No contrast enhancement
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237488
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37800
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237488
- Tropic type
- A
- Other remarks
- Several similar species see Hasle & Syvertsen (1996)
Distribution: Worldwide - Life form
- Solitary or in short chains
- Size
- Diameter = 25-100 µm, pervalvar axis = 80-130 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Delgado, M. & Fortuno, J.-M. 1991. Atlas de fitoplancton del Mar Mediterráneo. Scienta Marina. 55 (Suppl. 1): 1-133.
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.
Hasle, G. R. & Syvertsen, E. E. 1996. Marine diatoms. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 5-385.
Hendey, N. I. 1964. An introductory account of the smaller algae of British coastal waters. Part 5: Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms). HSMO, London. 317 pp.
Biovolumes
Species | Ditylum brightwellii |
---|---|
Author | (T. West) Grunow in Van Heurck 1883 |
Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | l*w*h/2 |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 15x100 | 20-22x120-130 | 23-25x200 | 30x200 | 20x80 | 25x120 | 45-55x61-75 | 45-55x101-125 |
Length(l1), µm | 15.0 | 21.0 | 24.0 | 30.0 | 20.0 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 |
Width(w), µm | 15 | 21 | 24 | 30 | 20 | 25 | 50 | 50 |
Height(h), µm | 100.0 | 125.0 | 200.0 | 200.0 | 80.0 | 120.0 | 68.0 | 113.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 11 250 | 27 563 | 57 600 | 90 000 | 16 000 | 37 500 | 85 000 | 141 250 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 556 | 1 149 | 2 090 | 3 001 | 739 | 1 475 | 2 865 | 4 325 |
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
- 2017-09-14 18:28:02 Lisa Karlson - Updated media metadata for Ditylum brightwellii_7.jpg
- 2017-09-14 18:27:20 Lisa Karlson - Added media: Ditylum brightwellii_7.jpg
- 2017-09-14 18:27:12 Lisa Karlson - Deleted media: Ditylum brightwellii_7.jpg
- 2017-09-14 18:25:21 Lisa Karlson - Updated media metadata for Ditylum brightwellii_7.jpg
- 2017-09-14 18:24:45 Lisa Karlson - Added media: Ditylum brightwellii_7.jpg
- 2013-05-14 07:30:45 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Ditylum brightwellii_6.jpg
- 2013-05-14 07:30:13 Regina Hansen - Added media: Ditylum brightwellii_6.jpg
- 2012-10-04 12:43:06 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Ditylum brightwellii_5.jpg
- 2012-10-04 12:35:14 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Ditylum brightwellii_5.jpg
- 2011-10-28 11:17:08 Wenche Eikrem - Updated media metadata for Ditylum brightwellii_4.jpg
- 2011-10-28 11:15:55 Wenche Eikrem - Added media: Ditylum brightwellii_4.jpg
- 2011-09-26 14:10:43 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Ditylum brightwellii_3.gif
- 2011-09-26 12:48:26 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Ditylum brightwellii_3.gif
- 2011-09-23 20:49:20 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Ditylum brightwellii_3.gif
- 2011-09-23 20:48:08 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Ditylum brightwellii_3.gif
- 2011-09-23 20:47:18 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Ditylum brightwellii_2.gif
- 2011-09-23 20:45:42 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Ditylum brightwellii_2.gif