Planktolyngbya Anagn. & Komárek
Planktolyngbya sp.
Straight filament of Planktolyngbya sp., width 1.5µm, surrounded by a firm, colourless gelatinous sheath.
Photographer/artist Helena Höglander
Additional image information
- Title
- Planktolyngbya sp.
- Photographer/artist
- Helena Höglander
- Copyright holder
- Helena Höglander
- Copyright stamp
- Helena Höglander
- Institute
- Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Helena Höglander
- Caption
- Straight filament of Planktolyngbya sp., width 1.5µm, surrounded by a firm, colourless gelatinous sheath.
- Sampling date
- 2010-09-15
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - Central Baltic proper
- Location
- Swedish monitoring station REFM1V1 (between island of Öland and the Swedish mainland).
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- Phase contrast
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Description
Subordinate taxa
Biovolumes
Species | Planktolyngbya |
---|---|
Division | CYANOPHYTA (CYANOBACTERIA) |
Class | Nostocophyceae (Cyanophyceae) |
Order | OSCILLATORIALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 |
---|---|---|---|
Unit | filament | filament | filament |
Size range | 1.5x100 | 2x100 | 2.5x100 |
Height(h), µm | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 25 | 25 | 25 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 177 | 314 | 491 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 34 | 58 | 88 |
Comment on Carbon calculation | based on individual cell | based on individual cell | based on individual cell |
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
- 2012-02-21 12:04:27 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Planktolyngbya_1.jpg
- 2012-02-21 11:53:37 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Added media: Planktolyngbya_1.jpg