Lithodesmium undulatum Ehrenberg, 1839
Lithodesmium undulatum
Chain and squashed cell (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Lithodesmium undulatum
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Chain and squashed cell (DIC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237487
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 38373
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237487
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Marginal ridge with clear pattern of perforation. The sides are undulated
- Other remarks
Distribution: Warm water region to temperate- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Width = 37-93 µm
- Literature
- Cupp, E. E. 1943. Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America. Bulletin of the Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. of the University of California. 5: 1-237.
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.
Hendey, N. I. 1964. An introductory account of the smaller algae of British coastal waters. Part 5: Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms). HSMO, London. 317 pp.
Biovolumes
| Species | Lithodesmium undulatum |
|---|---|
| Author | Ehrenberg 1839 |
| Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
| Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
| Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | l*w*h/2 |
| Size class | 1 |
|---|---|
| Unit | cell |
| Size range | 30-50x25-35 |
| Length(l1), µm | 40.0 |
| Width(w), µm | 40 |
| Height(h), µm | 30.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 24 000 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 027 |
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
