Peridinium quinquecorne Abé
Peridinium quinquecorne
Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik
Additional image information
- Title
- Peridinium quinquecorne
- Photographer/artist
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Copyright holder
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Institute
- SMHI
- Contributor
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Sampling date
- 2007-06-08
- Geographic area
- Kattegat - Swedish coast
- Location
- Askim
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Contrast enhancement
- DIC/Nomarski
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238194
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 70878
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238194
- Morphology
- Five cingular, 2a and 1a plates
- Other remarks
- Wide range of morphological variation. See Horiguchi & Pienaar (1991) and Steidinger & Tangen (1996) for taxonomical discussions
Distribution: Widely - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 23-30 µm, width 20-25 µm
- Literature
- Horiguchi, T. & Pienaar, R. N. 1991. Ultrastructure of a marine dinoflagellate, Peridinium quinquecorneAbé (Peridiniales) from South Africa with particular reference to its chrysophyte endosymbiont. Botanica Marina. 34: 123-131.
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 | Peridinium quinquecorne |
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Author | Abe, 1927 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | PERIDINIALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/12*d^2*(h+d/2) |
Size class | 1 |
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Unit | cell |
Size range | 25-30x20-25 |
Height(h), µm | 27.5 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 22.5 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 5 133 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 658 |
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 14:21:56 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Peridinium quinquecorne_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 14:21:49 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Peridinium quinquecorne_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 14:21:38 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Peridinium quinquecorne_2.jpg
- 2012-10-05 14:21:00 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Peridinium quinquecorne_2.jpg