Gonyaulax scrippsae Kofoid, 1911
Gonyaulax scrippsae
Motile cell (Lugol, DIC) and cyst (BF, courtesy of Anna Godhe)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Gonyaulax scrippsae
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Motile cell (Lugol, DIC) and cyst (BF, courtesy of Anna Godhe)
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat, Dinoflagellate cysts
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238217
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52323
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238217
- Morphology
- Longitudinal striation and vertical bars across the girdle, without antapical spines. Cyst.
- Other remarks
- Species-complex ?
Distribution: Worldwide - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 20-57 µm, width 27-40 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Bolch, C. J. & Hallegraeff, G. M. 1990. Dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments from Tasmania, Australia. Botanica Marina. 33: 173-192.
Dodge, J. D. 1989. Some revisions of the family Gonyaulacaceae (Dinophyceae) based on a scanning electron microscope study. Botanica Marina. 32: 275-298.
Reid, P. C. 1974. Gonyaulacacean dinoflagellate cysts from the British Isles. Nova Hedwigia. 25: 579-637.
Schiller, J. 1937. Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae) in monographischer Behandlung. Teil 2. Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora.10, III: 589 pp.
Wall, D. & Dale, B.1968b. Modern dinoflagellate cysts and evolution of the Peridiniales. Micropaleontology.14: 265-304.
Biovolumes
Species | Gonyaulax scrippsae |
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Author | Kofoid 1911 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | GONYAULACALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/12*d^2*(h+d/2) |
Size class | 1 |
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Unit | cell |
Size range | 30 |
Height(h), µm | 30.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 30.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 10 598 |
Comment | 6 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 301 |
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
- 2011-09-26 14:13:35 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Gonyaulax scrippsae_1.gif