Protoperidinium brevipes (Paulsen) Balech, 1974

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Protoperidinium brevipes

Photographer/artist Helena Höglander

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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
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 cone + half sphere
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

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