Prorocentrum lima (Ehrenberg) Dodge, 1975
Prorocentrum lima
Alive cell (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Prorocentrum lima
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Alive cell (BF)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238438
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52609
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238438
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Structure of theca and with 50-80 marginal pores
- Other remarks
- A benthic species occasionally found in plankton. Toxic (Murakami et al. 1982)
Distribution: Widely - Harmfulness, IOC
- This species is included in the IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae.
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- length 31-47 µm, width 22-40 µm
- Literature
- Faust, M. A. 1991. Morphology of ciguatera-causing Prorocentrum lima (Pyrrophyta) from widely differing sites. Journal of Phycology. 27: 642-648.
Murakami, Y., Oshima, Y. & Yasumoto T. 1982. Identification of okadaic acid as a toxic component of a marine dinoflagellate Prorocentrum lima. Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi. 48: 69-72.
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.
Zhou, J. & Fritz, L. 1993. Ultrastructure of two toxic marine dinoflagellates, Prorocentrum lima and Prorocentrum maculosum. Phycologia. 32: 444-450.
Biovolumes
| Species | Prorocentrum lima |
|---|---|
| Author | (Ehrenberg) Dodge 1975 |
| Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
| Class | Dinophyceae |
| Order | PROROCENTRALES |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/6*l*d1*d2 |
| Size class | 1 |
|---|---|
| Unit | cell |
| Size range | 50x60 |
| Length(l1), µm | 60.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 50.0 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 28.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 43 960 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 4 946 |
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 14:05:57 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Prorocentrum lima_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 14:05:07 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Prorocentrum lima_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 14:02:32 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Prorocentrum lima_3.JPG
- 2012-08-29 14:31:30 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Prorocentrum lima_4.JPG
- 2012-08-29 14:31:15 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Prorocentrum lima_4.JPG
- 2012-08-29 14:30:55 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Prorocentrum lima_3.JPG
- 2012-08-29 14:30:27 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Prorocentrum lima_3.JPG
- 2011-09-25 17:55:48 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Prorocentrum lima_2.gif
- 2011-09-25 17:54:20 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Prorocentrum lima_2.gif
