Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960
Micromonas pusilla
(SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Micromonas pusilla
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- (SEM)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 239004
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 45054
More info at http://algaebase.org - REBECCA code: R2687
More info at http://www.freshwaterecology.info
- Dyntaxa ID: 239004
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Small pear-shaped cell with one pyrenoid. Flagellum with terminal microtubles. Characteristic swiming-pattern
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 1-3 µm
- 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-0023, K-0024 - Literature
- Manton, I. & Parke, M. 1960. Further observations on small green flagellates with special reference to possible relatives of Chromulina pusilla Butcher. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 39: 275-298
Throndsen, J. 1993. The planktonic marine flagellates. In: (Tomas eds.) Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 7-145.
Biovolumes
Species | Micromonas pusilla |
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Author | (Butcher) Manton & Parke 1960 |
Division | CHLOROPHYTA |
Class | Prasinophyceae (Micromonadophyceae) |
Order | MAMIELLALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/6*d^2*l |
Size class | 1 |
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Unit | cell |
Size range | 1-3 |
Length(l1), µm | 2.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 1.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 1.0 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 0.2 |
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
- 2012-05-14 21:11:24 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Micromonas pusilla_2.jpg
- 2012-05-14 21:10:41 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Micromonas pusilla_2.jpg