Leptocylindrus danicus P.T. Cleve, 1889
Leptocylindrus danicus
Valve (SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Leptocylindrus danicus
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Copyright stamp
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- Dept. of Marine botany, University of Gothenburg
- Contributing organisation
- University of Gothenburg
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Valve (SEM)
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Preservation
- Not described
- Contrast enhancement
- Not described
- Stain
- Sputter coated
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237356
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 38350
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237356
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Cylindrical cells with several chloroplasts
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 5-16 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Davis, C. O., Hollibaugh, J. T., Seibert, D. L. R., Thomas, W. H. & Harrison, P. J. 1980. Formation of resting spores by Leptocylindrus danicus (Bacillariophyceae) in a controlled ecosystem. J. Phycol.16: 296-302.
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.
Hasle, G. R. & Syvertsen, E. E. 1996. Marine diatoms. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 5-385.
Takano, H. 1990. Diatoms. In “Red tide organisms in Japan-An illustrated taxonomic guide”. (Y. Fukuyo, H. Takano, M. Chihara & K. Matsuoka eds) . Uchida Rokakuho, Tokyo, p. 162-331.
Biovolumes
Species | Leptocylindrus danicus |
---|---|
Author | P.T. Cleve 1889 |
Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 3x80 | 4x40-55 | 5x25-30 | 5x30-50 | 5x50-60 | 5x70-80 | 6x25-35 | 7-9x35-50 | 9-11x40-60 |
Height(h), µm | 80.0 | 48.0 | 28.0 | 40.0 | 55.0 | 78.0 | 31.0 | 42.5 | 50.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 565 | 603 | 550 | 785 | 1 079 | 1 531 | 876 | 2 135 | 3 925 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 49 | 52 | 48 | 64 | 83 | 110 | 70 | 144 | 237 |
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
- 2014-03-27 11:51:18 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Leptocylindrus danicus_5.jpg
- 2014-03-27 11:48:56 Susanne Busch - Added media: Leptocylindrus danicus_5.jpg
- 2013-05-14 07:34:04 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Leptocylindrus danicus_4.jpg
- 2013-05-14 07:33:26 Regina Hansen - Added media: Leptocylindrus danicus_4.jpg
- 2012-06-19 19:39:59 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Leptocylindrus danicus_3.jpg
- 2012-06-19 19:38:37 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Leptocylindrus danicus_3.jpg
- 2011-09-23 20:56:17 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Leptocylindrus danicus_2.gif
- 2011-09-23 20:55:02 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Leptocylindrus danicus_2.gif