Eutreptiella gymnastica Throndsen, 1969
Eutreptiella gymnastica
Photographer/artist Seija Hällfors
Additional image information
- Title
- Eutreptiella gymnastica
- Photographer/artist
- Seija Hällfors
- Copyright holder
- Seija Hällfors
- Institute
- SYKE
- Contributor
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Location
- Baltic Sea
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Not described
- Contrast enhancement
- Not described
- Stain
- Not described
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238576
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 56406
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238576
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Cell with two unequal flagella and one reticulate chloroplast with a single pyrenoid. Stigma large and marked metaboly
- Other remarks
Distribution: Coastal Atlantic- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 17-38 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- 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-0334, K-0333 - Literature
- Olli, K.1996. Resting cyst formation of Eutreptiella gymnastica (Euglenophyceae) in the northern coastal Baltic Sea. J. Phycol. 32: 535-542.
Throndsen, J. 1969. Flagellates of Norwegian coastal waters. Nytt Mag. Bot. 16: 161-216.
Throndsen, J. 1993. The planktonic marine flagellates. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids. Academic Press, San Diego, p. 7-145.
Biovolumes
Species | Eutreptiella gymnastica |
---|---|
Author | Throndsen 1969 |
Division | EUGLENOPHYTA |
Class | Euglenophyceae |
Order | EUGLENALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/6*d^2*l |
Size class | 1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell |
Size range | 5-15x40-60 | 8x25 |
Length(l1), µm | 50.0 | 25.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 10.0 | 8.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 2 617 | 837 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 349.7 | 120 |
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
- 2012-09-14 11:38:04 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Eutreptiella gymnastica_4.gif
- 2012-09-14 11:37:55 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Eutreptiella gymnastica_4.gif
- 2012-08-30 08:28:59 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Eutreptiella gymnastica_3.jpg
- 2012-08-30 08:28:35 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Eutreptiella gymnastica_3.jpg
- 2011-10-07 14:08:30 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Eutreptiella gymnastica_2.jpg
- 2011-10-07 14:07:44 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Eutreptiella gymnastica_2.jpg