Karenia mikimotoi (Miyake & Kominami ex Oda) G. Hansen & Ø. Moestrup

Karenia mikimotoi
Culture
Photographer/artist Gert Hansen
Additional image information
- Title
- Karenia mikimotoi
- Photographer/artist
- Gert Hansen
- Copyright holder
- Gert Hansen
- Copyright stamp
- Gert Hansen
- Institute
- The Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa at the University of Copenhagen
- Contributing organisation
- SCCAP, University of Copenhagen
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Culture
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Contrast enhancement
- Not described
- Stain
- No stain
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238410
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 44334
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238410
- Note on taxonomy
- This is just a test to see what shows up in the change history.
- Morphology
- The cells flattened dorso-ventrally, nucleus ellipsoidal and on the left side, chloroplasts with pyrenoids
- Other remarks
- Toxic and a red-tide causing organism. Often referred to Gyrodinium aureolum in european waters
Distribution: Worldwide - Harmfulness, IOC
- This species is included in the IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae.
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 18-37 µm, width 14-35 µm
- Culture collections
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SCCAP
The Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa at the University of Copenhagen
More info at http://www.sccap.dk.
Strains: K-0260 - Literature
- Partensky, F., Vaulot, D. Couté, A. & Sournia, A. 1988. Morphological and nuclear analysis of the bloom-forming dinoflagellates Gyrodinium cf. aureolum and Gymnodinium nagasakiense. J. Phycol. 24: 408-415.
Steidinger, K. A. & Tangen, K. 1996. Dinoflagellates. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 387-584.
Takayama, H. 1990. Dinoflagellates. In “Red tide organisms in Japan-An illustrated taxonomic guide”. (Y. Fukuyo, H. Takano, M. Chihara & K. Matsuoka eds)Uchida Rokakuho, Tokyo. P. 48-49
Takayama, H. Matsuoka, K. & Fukuyo, Y. 1998. A taxonomic study on Gyrodinium aureolum Hulburt (Dinophyceae) from the morphological viewpoint based on materials collected in Japanese coastal waters. Bull. Plankton Soc. Japan. 45: 9-19.
Biovolumes
Species | Karenia mikimotoi |
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Author | (Miyake et Kominami ex Oda) G. Hansen & Moestrup 2000 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | GYMNODINIALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | ![]() |
Formula | p/6*l*d1*d2 |
Size class | 1 | 2 |
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Unit | cell | cell |
Size range | 20-25 | 26-30 |
Length(l1), µm | 23.0 | 28.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 20.0 | 23.0 |
Diameter(d2), µm | 15.0 | 19.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 3 611 | 6 404 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 473 | 810 |
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
- 2012-10-05 13:08:47 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Karenia mikimotoi_4.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:07:33 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Karenia mikimotoi_4.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:06:23 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Karenia mikimotoi_4.jpg
- 2012-09-05 16:12:06 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Karenia mikimotoi_3.jpg
- 2012-09-05 16:11:27 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Karenia mikimotoi_3.jpg
- 2012-02-02 12:10:53 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Karenia mikimotoi_2.jpg
- 2012-02-02 12:09:58 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Karenia mikimotoi_2.jpg
- 2012-02-02 12:09:37 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Karenia mikimotoi_2.jpg
- 2011-10-07 14:23:26 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Karenia mikimotoi_1.jpg
- 2011-10-07 14:23:04 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Karenia mikimotoi_1.jpg
- 2011-10-03 21:12:17 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Karenia mikimotoi_1193668908.gif
- 2011-09-14 14:27:38 Bengt Karlson - Deleted media: Karenia mikimotoi_1194301287.mov