Emiliania huxleyi (Lohmann) Hay & Mohler, 1967
Emiliania huxleyi
Coccosphere and two coccoliths. (SEM)
Photographer/artist Bengt Karlson
Additional image information
- Title
- Emiliania huxleyi
- Photographer/artist
- Bengt Karlson
- Copyright holder
- Bengt Karlson
- Copyright stamp
- Bengt Karlson
- Institute
- Dept. of Marine botany, University of Gothenburg
- Contributing organisation
- University of Gothenburg
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Coccosphere and two coccoliths. (SEM)
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Preservation
- Not described
- Contrast enhancement
- No contrast enhancement
- Stain
- Shadow cast
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237014
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 51619
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237014
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- placolith in SEM
- Other remarks
- With three cell types (Heimdal 1993)
Distribution: Worldwide - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Diameter c. 5-10 µm, coccoliths c. 3.5X3 µm
- 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-1557, K-1556 - Literature
- Heimdal, B. R. 1993. Modern Coccolithophorids. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids. p. 147-247.
The 1992 Norwegian Emiliania huxleyi experiment. 1994. Sarsia. 79: 285-425
Biovolumes
Species | Emiliania huxleyi |
---|---|
Author | (Lohmann) Hay & Mohler 1967 |
Division | HAPTOPHYTA |
Class | Prymnesiophyceae (Haptophyceae) |
Order | PRYMNESIALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/6*d^3 |
Size class | 1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell |
Size range | 2-4 | 4-6 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 3.0 | 5.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 14 | 65 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 3 | 11 |
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
- 2020-08-13 10:32:17 Maria Karlberg - Deleted media: Emiliania huxleyi_6.png
- 2020-08-10 08:57:46 Maria Karlberg - Updated media metadata for Emiliania huxleyi_6.png
- 2020-08-10 08:54:55 Maria Karlberg - Added media: Emiliania huxleyi_6.png
- 2011-10-17 21:47:20 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Emiliania huxleyi_5.jpg
- 2011-10-17 21:29:29 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Emiliania huxleyi_5.jpg
- 2011-10-07 14:04:01 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Emiliania huxleyi_4.jpg
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- 2011-10-07 14:03:03 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Emiliania huxleyi_3.jpg
- 2011-10-07 14:02:39 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Emiliania huxleyi_3.jpg
- 2011-09-26 19:11:32 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Emiliania huxleyi_1296229484.jpg
- 2011-09-26 19:10:30 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Emiliania huxleyi_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 19:09:13 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Emiliania huxleyi_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 19:08:23 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Emiliania huxleyi_1296229484.jpg