Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kof. & Swezy
Noctiluca scintillans
Photo of Noctiluca scintillans.
Photographer/artist Karin Pettersson
Additional image information
- Title
- Noctiluca scintillans
- Photographer/artist
- Karin Pettersson
- Copyright holder
- Karin Pettersson
- Institute
- Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Photo of Noctiluca scintillans.
- Sampling date
- 16 Dec. 2020
- Geographic area
- Kattegat - Swedish coast
- Location
- Örsviken
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Contrast enhancement
- No contrast enhancement
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238481
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52491
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238481
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Form of cell and the striated tentacle.
- Other remarks
- With food vacuoles often containing diatoms. Forms blooms
Distribution: Worldwide - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- 200-2000 µm
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 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 | Noctiluca scintillans |
---|---|
Author | (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy 1921 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | NOCTILUCALES |
Trophy | HT |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/6*d^3 |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 300-500 | 500-700 | 700-900 | 900-1100 | 80-150 | 150-300 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 400.0 | 600.0 | 800.0 | 1000.0 | 115.0 | 225.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 33 493 333 | 113 040 000 | 267 946 667 | 523 333 333 | 795 925 | 5 961 094 |
Comment | Special case of a large dinoflagellate with considerable vacuole. See text and tables in Menden-Deuer & Lessard (2000) | Special case of a large dinoflagellate with considerable vacuole. See text and tables in Menden-Deuer & Lessard (2000) | Special case of a large dinoflagellate with considerable vacuole. See text and tables in Menden-Deuer & Lessard (2000) | Special case of a large dinoflagellate with considerable vacuole. See text and tables in Menden-Deuer & Lessard (2000) | Special case of a large dinoflagellate with considerable vacuole. See text and tables in Menden-Deuer & Lessard (2000) | Special case of a large dinoflagellate with considerable vacuole. See text and tables in Menden-Deuer & Lessard (2000) |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 100 480 | 339 120 | 803 840 | 1 570 000 | 2 388 | 17 883 |
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
- 2020-12-18 04:14:27 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_6.jpg
- 2020-12-18 04:13:49 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_8.jpg
- 2020-12-18 04:13:07 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_7.jpg
- 2020-12-18 04:12:27 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_7.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:29:01 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_8.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:27:04 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Noctiluca scintillans_8.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:26:30 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_7.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:24:33 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Noctiluca scintillans_7.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:23:50 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_6.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:22:08 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Noctiluca scintillans_6.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:21:18 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_5.JPG
- 2020-12-16 17:20:21 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Noctiluca scintillans_5.JPG
- 2020-12-16 17:19:08 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_4.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:18:08 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Noctiluca scintillans_4.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:16:41 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_3.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:16:00 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_3.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:15:08 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_3.jpg
- 2020-12-16 17:11:50 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Noctiluca scintillans_3.jpg
- 2011-09-27 14:08:18 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Noctiluca scintillans_1.gif