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

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Karenia mikimotoi

Culture

Photographer/artist Gert Hansen

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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
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
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.

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Biovolumes

Species Karenia mikimotoi
Author (Miyake et Kominami ex Oda) G. Hansen & Moestrup 2000
Division DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA)
Class Dinophyceae
Order GYMNODINIALES
Trophy AU
Geometric shape flattened ellipsoid
Formula p/6*l*d1*d2
Size class 1 2
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

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  • 2011-10-07 14:23:26 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Karenia mikimotoi_1.jpg
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