Laboea strobila Lohmann, 1908
Laboea strobila
Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik
Additional image information
- Title
- Laboea strobila
- Photographer/artist
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Copyright holder
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Institute
- SMHI
- Contributor
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Sampling date
- 2012-09-17
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - off shore
- Location
- Å17
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- DIC/Nomarski
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238560
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 56521
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238560
- Morphology
- It has a spiral kinety and posses 36-72 oval nuclei (2-3 µm)
- Other remarks
- It is mixotrophic
Distribution: Widely - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 60-130 µm, width 20-65 µm .
- Literature
- Jonsson, P. R. 1987. Photosynthetic assimilation of inorganic carbon in marine oligotrich ciliates (Ciliophora, Oligotrichina). Mar. Microb. Food Webs. 2: 55-68.
Montagnes, D. J. S., Lynn, D. H., Stoecker, D. K. & Small, E. B. 1988. Taxonomic descriptions of one new species and redescription of four species in the family Strombidiidae (Ciliophora, Oligotrichida). Journal of Protozoology. 35: 189-197.
Sanders, R. W. 1995. Seasonal distributions of the photosynthesizing ciliates Laboea strobila and Myrionecta rubra (= Mesodinium rubrum) in an estuary of the Gulf of Maine. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 9: 237-242.
Biovolumes
Species | Laboea strobila |
---|---|
Author | Lohmann 1908 |
Division | Ciliophora |
Class | Litostomatea |
Order | HAPTORIDA |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/12*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 40-45x80-90 | 30-40x60-80 | 20-30x45-60 |
Height(h), µm | 85.0 | 70.0 | 52.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 42.0 | 35.0 | 25.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 39 234 | 22 438 | 8 504 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 4 445 | 2 630 | 1 058 |
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
- 2019-03-22 14:01:04 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Laboea strobila_4.jpg
- 2018-12-07 13:52:04 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Laboea strobila_4.jpg
- 2018-12-07 13:48:24 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Added media: Laboea strobila_4.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:11:07 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Laboea strobila_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:10:44 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Laboea strobila_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:10:29 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Laboea strobila_2.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:09:36 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Laboea strobila_2.jpg