Preperidinium meunieri (Pavillard) Elbrächter, 1993
Preperidinium meunieri
A-D = A living cell at different views, arrow=plate 1a, arrowhead=narrow apical plate, C = Antapical plate. (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Preperidinium meunieri
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A-D = A living cell at different views, arrow=plate 1a, arrowhead=narrow apical plate, C = Antapical plate. (DIC)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238238
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52595
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238238
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- First apical plate (1') narrow and one very small square intercalary plate on left side. Hypotheca with one antapical plate
- Other remarks
- Theca with or without pores (Hansen & Larsen 1992)
Distribution: Worldwide - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Diameter = 28-60 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 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 | Preperidinium meunieri |
---|---|
Author | (Pavillard) Elbrächter 1993 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | PERIDINIALES |
Trophy | HT |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/6*l*d1*d2 |
Size class | 1 | 2 |
---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell |
Size range | 48x28 | 55x38 |
Length(l1), µm | 48.0 | 55.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 28.0 | 38.0 |
Diameter(d2), µm | 18.8 | 25.5 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 13 195 | 27 847 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 598 | 3 222 |
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
- 2014-09-26 15:17:12 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Preperidinium meunieri_2.jpg
- 2014-09-26 15:14:06 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Preperidinium meunieri_2.jpg