Lingulodinium polyedrum (Stein) Dodge, 1989
Lingulodinium polyedrum
Theca (SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Lingulodinium polyedrum
- 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
- Theca (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: 238221
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 44594
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238221
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- The polyedral shaped swiming cell, characteristic cyst
- Other remarks
- Toxic
Distribution: Widely in warm temperate and tropical waters - Harmfulness, IOC
- This species is included in the IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae.
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length and width 42-54 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- 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-1023, K-1022, K-1096, K-0982, K-1045 - Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Hansen, G. & Larsen, J. 1992. Dinoflagellater i danske farvande. In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, p. 45-155.
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.
Biovolumes
Species | Lingulodinium polyedrum |
---|---|
Author | (Stein) Dodge 1989 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | GONYAULACALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/6*d^2*l |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 30x30 | 34x38 | 37x44 | 41x50 |
Length(l1), µm | 30.0 | 38.0 | 44.0 | 50.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 30.0 | 34.0 | 37.0 | 41.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 14 130 | 22 989 | 31 524 | 43 986 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 704 | 2 691 | 3 620 | 4 949 |
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
- 2012-09-17 13:53:24 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_7.jpg
- 2012-09-17 13:48:34 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_7.jpg
- 2012-09-17 13:46:59 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_7.jpg
- 2012-09-10 13:05:55 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_6.JPG
- 2012-09-10 13:03:38 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_6.JPG
- 2012-09-10 10:57:07 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_5.JPG
- 2012-09-10 10:56:55 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_5.JPG
- 2012-09-10 10:56:26 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_5.JPG
- 2012-08-29 14:14:00 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_5.JPG
- 2012-08-29 14:13:38 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_5.JPG
- 2012-08-29 14:13:27 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_5.JPG
- 2012-08-29 14:12:44 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_5.JPG
- 2012-08-29 14:12:09 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_5.JPG
- 2011-10-07 14:27:56 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_4.jpg
- 2011-10-07 14:27:34 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_4.jpg
- 2011-09-26 14:11:14 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_3.gif
- 2011-09-25 16:23:06 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_3.gif
- 2011-09-25 16:22:11 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_3.gif
- 2011-09-25 16:21:32 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Lingulodinium polyedrum_2.gif
- 2011-09-25 16:20:05 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Lingulodinium polyedrum_2.gif