Melosira varians C.Agardh
Melosira varians, C.Agardh 1827
diameter: 10-22 µm, height: 25-35 µm
Photographer/artist Joanna Siemiak
Additional image information
- Title
- Melosira varians, C.Agardh 1827
- Photographer/artist
- Joanna Siemiak
- Copyright holder
- Joanna Siemiak
- Institute
- WIOŚ Gdańsk,
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM PEG
- Contributor
- Janina Kownacka
- Caption
- diameter: 10-22 µm, height: 25-35 µm
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - The Gulf of Gdansk
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237445
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 31650
More info at http://algaebase.org - OMNIDIA code: MVAR
Used by many freshwater diatomists. See http://omnidia.free.fr/omnidia_english.htmand http://www.norbaf.net - REBECCA code: R0062
More info at http://www.freshwaterecology.info
- Dyntaxa ID: 237445
- Tropic type
- A
Biovolumes
| Species | Melosira varians |
|---|---|
| Author | C.A. Agardh 1827 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell |
| Size range | 10-12x25 | 13-15x20-25 | 15-17x25-30 | 18-22x30-35 |
| Height(h), µm | 25.0 | 22.4 | 28.0 | 32.5 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 11.2 | 14.0 | 16.0 | 20.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 2 462 | 3 446 | 5 627 | 10 205 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 162 | 213 | 317 | 513 |
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
- 2019-03-01 10:16:09 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Melosira varians_2.png
- 2019-03-01 10:15:28 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Melosira varians_2.png
- 2019-03-01 10:05:03 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Melosira varians_2.png
- 2014-08-01 11:55:34 Birger Skjelbred - Updated media metadata for Melosira varians_1.JPG
- 2014-08-01 11:53:07 Birger Skjelbred - Added media: Melosira varians_1.JPG
