Leptocylindrus minimus Gran, 1915
Leptocylindrus minimus
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Leptocylindrus minimus
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237358
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 38351
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237358
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Long thin cylindrical cells with mostly two elongate chloroplasts, the shape of resting spore
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Solitary or united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 1.5-4.5 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.
Hargraves, P. E. 1990. Studies on marine planktonic diatoms. V. Morphology and distribution of Leptocylindrus minimus Gran. Beiheft zur Nova Hedwigia. 100: 47-60.
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.
Biovolumes
Species | Leptocylindrus minimus |
---|---|
Author | Gran 1915 |
Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell |
Size range | 3x20-25 | 3x26-50 |
Height(h), µm | 22.0 | 38.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 3.0 | 3.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 155 | 268 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 17 | 27 |
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