Gymnodinium ostenfeldii Schiller
Gymnodinium ostenfeldii
A living cell (arrow=pyrenoid) (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Gymnodinium ostenfeldii
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A living cell (arrow=pyrenoid) (BF)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238346
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52366
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238346
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- It has many disc-shaped chloroplasts with pyrenoid
- Other remarks
Distribution: Adria, Skagerrak, Kattegat- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 14-30 µm
- Literature
- Hansen, G. & Larsen, J. 1992. Dinoflagellater i danske farvande. In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, p. 45-155.
Schiller, J. 1933. Dinoflagellatae (Peridineae) in monographischer Behandlung. Teil 1. In Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora. 10, III: 617 pp.
Biovolumes
| Species | Gymnodinium ostenfeldii |
|---|---|
| Author | Schiller 1928 |
| Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
| Class | Dinophyceae |
| Order | GYMNODINIALES |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/6*l*d1*d2 |
| Size class | 1 |
|---|---|
| Unit | cell |
| Size range | 14-16x8-9 |
| Length(l1), µm | 15.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 8.5 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 5.7 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 380 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 57 |
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
