Proboscia alata (Brightwell) Sundström, 1986
Proboscia alata
Photographer/artist Bengt Karlson
Additional image information
- Title
- Proboscia alata
- Photographer/artist
- Bengt Karlson
- Copyright holder
- Bengt Karlson
- Copyright stamp
- Bengt Karlson
- Institute
- SMHI, oceanography
- Contributing organisation
- SMHI
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- 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: 237449
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 56315
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237449
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Proboscis with truncate tip. Bands in two columns and with pores and loculate areolae
- Other remarks
- There are several closely allied taxa (Sundström 1996)
- Life form
- Solitary or united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 2.5-13 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.
Sundström, B. G.1986. The marine genus Rhizosolenia. Doctoral Dissertation, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 117 pp.
Biovolumes
Species | Proboscia alata |
---|---|
Author | (Brightwell) Sundström 1986 |
Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 4x300-400 | 4x450-650 | 5x340-470 | 6x500-600 | 7x250-400 | 9x300-400 | 10x400-500 | 20x1300 |
Height(h), µm | 350.0 | 550.0 | 400.0 | 560.0 | 325.0 | 360.0 | 450.0 | 1300.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 4.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 9.0 | 10.0 | 20.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 4 396 | 6 908 | 7 850 | 15 826 | 12 501 | 22 891 | 35 325 | 408 200 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 259 | 374 | 415 | 733 | 605 | 989 | 1 406 | 10 228 |
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
- 2014-01-06 11:36:24 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Proboscia alata_5.jpg
- 2014-01-06 11:33:24 Susanne Busch - Added media: Proboscia alata_5.jpg
- 2013-08-19 11:46:30 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Proboscia alata_4.jpg
- 2013-08-19 11:45:39 Susanne Busch - Added media: Proboscia alata_4.jpg
- 2012-11-14 14:19:00 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Proboscia alata_3.jpg
- 2012-11-14 14:18:25 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Proboscia alata_3.jpg
- 2012-06-19 19:42:31 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Proboscia alata_2.jpg
- 2012-06-19 19:41:56 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Proboscia alata_2.jpg