Odontella aurita (Lyngbye) C.A. Agardh, 1832
Odontella aurita
Living cells (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Odontella aurita
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Living cells (DIC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237373
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 39270
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237373
- Tropic type
- A
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Cells united in chains and often on substrate
- Size
- Diameter = 10-95 µm
- Literature
- Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.
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.
Biovolumes
| Species | Odontella aurita |
|---|---|
| Author | (Lyngbye) C.A. Agardh 1832 |
| Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
| Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
| Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/4*d1*d2*h |
| Size class | 1 |
|---|---|
| Unit | cell |
| Size range | 30-40x40-50 |
| Height(h), µm | 44.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 35.0 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 18.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 21 760 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 949 |
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
- 2012-10-05 13:17:46 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Odontella aurita_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 13:16:37 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Odontella aurita_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 12:42:22 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Odontella aurita_2.jpg
- 2012-10-05 12:41:26 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Odontella aurita_2.jpg
