Paralia sulcata (Ehrenberg) P.T. Cleve, 1873
Paralia sulcata
Photographer/artist Lars Edler
Additional image information
- Title
- Paralia sulcata
- Photographer/artist
- Lars Edler
- Copyright holder
- Lars Edler
- Institute
- WEAQ AB
- Contributor
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Not described
- Contrast enhancement
- DIC/Nomarski
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237402
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 33025
More info at http://algaebase.org - REBECCA code: R2591
More info at http://www.freshwaterecology.info
- Dyntaxa ID: 237402
- Tropic type
- A
- Other remarks
- With two different valves, bottom form which can be common in coastal plankton
Distribution: Worldwide - Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 8-130 µm, pervalvar axis 3-45 µm
- Literature
- Crawford, R. M. 1979. Taxonomy and frustular structure of the marine centric diatom Paralia sulcata. Journal of Phycology. 15: 200-210.
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 | Paralia sulcata |
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Author | (Ehrenberg) P.T. Cleve 1873 |
Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 |
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Unit | cell |
Size range | 10x20 |
Height(h), µm | 10.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 20.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 3 140 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 197 |
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
- 2012-09-24 14:25:36 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Paralia sulcata_3.jpg
- 2012-09-24 14:25:25 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Paralia sulcata_3.jpg
- 2011-09-25 06:40:40 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Paralia sulcata_2.gif
- 2011-09-25 06:39:42 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Paralia sulcata_2.gif