Eucampia zodiacus Ehrenberg, 1839
Eucampia zodiacus
A = Living cells (DIC); B = Cells (PC); Cells (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Eucampia zodiacus
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = Living cells (DIC); B = Cells (PC); Cells (BF)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237367
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37924
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237367
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Valve face concave in broad girdle view. Bands scarcely visible, chains helically coiled
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Apical axis = 8-80 µm
- Literature
- 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.
Syvertsen, E. E. & Hasle, G. R. 1983. The diatom genus Eucampia: Morphology and taxonomy. Bacillaria. 6: 169-210.
Biovolumes
| Species | Eucampia zodiacus |
|---|---|
| Author | Ehrenberg 1839 |
| Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
| Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
| Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/4*d1*d2*h |
| Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
| Size range | 20x10 | 25x15 | 25x20 | 10-80x20-50 | 15-35x20-80 |
| Height(h), µm | 10.0 | 15.0 | 20.0 | 35.0 | 25.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 20.0 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 45.0 | 50.0 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 8.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 18.0 | 30.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 1 256 | 2 944 | 3 925 | 22 255 | 29 438 |
| Comment | HD fac.=0.4 | HD fac.=0.4 | HD fac.=0.4 | HD fac.=0.4 | HD fac.=0.6 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 94 | 187 | 237 | 966 | 1 212 |
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
- 2015-09-02 12:21:38 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Eucampia zodiacus_5.jpg
- 2015-09-02 12:19:21 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Eucampia zodiacus_5.jpg
- 2012-06-19 19:46:38 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Eucampia zodiacus_4.jpg
- 2012-06-19 19:46:12 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Eucampia zodiacus_4.jpg
- 2011-10-24 20:11:10 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Eucampia zodiacus_3.jpg
- 2011-10-24 20:10:22 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Eucampia zodiacus_3.jpg
- 2011-10-17 21:56:43 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Eucampia zodiacus_3.jpg
- 2011-10-17 21:52:49 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Eucampia zodiacus_3.jpg
- 2011-09-23 20:52:35 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Eucampia zodiacus_2.gif
- 2011-09-23 20:51:22 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Eucampia zodiacus_2.gif
