Mesodinium rubrum (Lohmann, 1908)
Mesodinium rubrum
Cell size 30-40 µm.
Photographer/artist Helena Höglander
Additional image information
- Title
- Mesodinium rubrum
- Photographer/artist
- Helena Höglander
- Copyright holder
- Helena Höglander
- Institute
- Stockholm university, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Helena Höglander
- Caption
- Cell size 30-40 µm.
- Sampling date
- 2010-12-08.
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - Northern Baltic proper
- Location
- Himmerfjärden Bay.
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- Phase contrast
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238566
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 56539
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238566
- Morphology
- Obligate autotroph (?) with many red chloroplasts
- Other remarks
- Bloom forming
Distribution: Worldwide - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- length 15-70 µm
- Literature
- Crawford, D. W., Purdie, D. A., Lockwood, A. P. M. & Weissman, P. 1997. Recurrent red-tides in Southampton water estuary caused by the phototrophic ciliate Mesodinium rubrum. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 45: 799-812.
Lindholm, T. 1985. Mesodinium rubrum - a unique photosynthetic ciliate. Adv. Aqvat. Microbiol., 3: 1-48.
Lohmann, H. 1908. Untersuchungen zur Feststellungen des vollständigen Gehaltes des Meeres an Plankton. Wissensch. Meeresuntersuchungen, Abt. Kiel, NF., 10: 131-370.
Biovolumes
| Species | Mesodinium rubrum |
|---|---|
| Author | (Lohmann) Hamburger & Buddenbrock 1911 |
| Division | Ciliophora |
| Class | Litostomatea |
| Order | HAPTORIDA |
| Trophy | MX |
| Geometric shape | 2 spheres * 5/8 |
| Formula | p/6*d^3*2*5/8 |
| Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
| Size range | 10-14 | 14-16 | 16-20 | 20-27 | 27-33 | 33-37 | 37-45 | 45-55 | 55-65 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 12.5 | 15.0 | 17.5 | 22.5 | 30.0 | 35.0 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 60.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 1 278 | 2 208 | 3 506 | 7 451 | 14 130 | 22 438 | 33 493 | 65 417 | 113 040 |
| Comment | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 178 | 298 | 460 | 934 | 1 704 | 2 630 | 3 832 | 7 184 | 12 007 |
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
- 2018-12-07 14:03:41 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Mesodinium rubrum_5.jpg
- 2018-12-07 14:00:40 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Added media: Mesodinium rubrum_5.jpg
- 2018-12-07 13:59:38 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Mesodinium rubrum_4.jpg
- 2018-12-07 13:58:29 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Added media: Mesodinium rubrum_4.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:22:11 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Mesodinium rubrum_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:21:31 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Mesodinium rubrum_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:15:34 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Mesodinium rubrum_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:15:10 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Mesodinium rubrum_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:13:12 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Mesodinium rubrum_3.jpg
- 2012-09-14 11:44:32 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Mesodinium rubrum_2.jpg
- 2012-09-14 11:44:25 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Mesodinium rubrum_2.jpg
