Gyrodinium dominans Hulburt, 1957
Gyrodinium dominans
A = A living cell in ventral view; B = A living cell at two focal planes; C = A cell in dorsal view at different focal planes (arrowhead=stria, arrow=nucleus). (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Gyrodinium dominans
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = A living cell in ventral view; B = A living cell at two focal planes; C = A cell in dorsal view at different focal planes (arrowhead=stria, arrow=nucleus). (DIC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238383
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52395
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238383
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Surface with striation, nucleus anterior and sulcus sigmoid
- Other remarks
- Many different forms. It was common in Gullmarsfjorden in spring
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- length 18-43 µm, width 10-22 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.
Hulburt, E. M. 1957. The taxonomy of unarmored Dinophyceae of shallow embayments on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Biological Bulletin. 112: 196-219.
Biovolumes
Species | Gyrodinium dominans |
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Author | Hulburt 1957 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | GYMNODINIALES |
Trophy | HT |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/6*l*d1*d2 |
Size class | 1 |
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Unit | cell |
Size range | 40 |
Length(l1), µm | 40.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 25.0 |
Diameter(d2), µm | 16.8 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 8 766 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 088 |
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