Protoperidinium brevipes (Paulsen) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium brevipes
Photographer/artist Helena Höglander
Additional image information
- Title
- Protoperidinium brevipes
- Photographer/artist
- Helena Höglander
- Copyright holder
- Helena Höglander
- Copyright stamp
- Helena Höglander
- Institute
- Department of ecology, environment and plant sciences. Stockholm university
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Helena Höglander
- Sampling date
- 2009-05-19
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - Northern Baltic proper
- Location
- Landsort Deep
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- Phase contrast
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238243
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 70945
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238243
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- 1' is meta and 2a is quadra, triangle in crossection. Surface with short spines or papillae
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide in cold water- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 18-38 µm, width 28-34 µm
- Literature
- 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.
Paulsen, O. 1908. XVIII Peridiniales. In: Nordisches Plankton, (eds K. Brandt & C. Apstein). Verlag Linsius und Tischer, Kiel und Leipzig, pp. 1-124
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 | Protoperidinium brevipes |
---|---|
Author | (Paulsen) Balech 1974 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | PERIDINIALES |
Trophy | HT |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/12*d^2*(h+d/2) |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 18-22 | 23-29 | 30-35 | 36-40 |
Height(h), µm | 20.0 | 26.0 | 34.0 | 37.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 20.0 | 26.0 | 31.0 | 37.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 3 140 | 6 899 | 12 447 | 19 881 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 415 | 869 | 1 513 | 2 348 |
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
- 2015-04-08 06:38:58 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium brevipes_3.jpg
- 2015-04-08 06:37:40 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Added media: Protoperidinium brevipes_3.jpg
- 2014-07-25 08:24:44 Irina Olenina - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium brevipes_2.JPG
- 2014-07-25 08:21:34 Irina Olenina - Added media: Protoperidinium brevipes_2.JPG