Protoperidinium conicum (Gran) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium conicum
Photographer/artist Regina Hansen
Additional image information
- Title
- Protoperidinium conicum
- Photographer/artist
- Regina Hansen
- Copyright holder
- Regina Hansen
- Institute
- Leibniz Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde
- Contributor
- Regina Hansen
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - Mecklenburger Bight
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Formaldehyde
- Contrast enhancement
- Phase contrast
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238249
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52637
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238249
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Shape, 1'-plate is ortho and 2a-plate is hexa (difficult to see)
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 70-90 µm, width 60-80 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Gran, H. 1902. Das Plankton des Norwegischen Nordmeeres von biologischen und hydrographischen Gesichtpunkten behandelt. Rep. Norweg. Fish. Invest., 2, pt. 2, No. 5. 222 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.
Wall, D. & Dale, B.1968b. Modern dinoflagellate cysts and evolution of the Peridiniales. Micropaleontology.14: 265-304.
Biovolumes
Species | Protoperidinium conicum |
---|---|
Author | (Gran) 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 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 52-57 | 57-62 | 63-71 | 72-77 | 77-82 | 87-92 |
Height(h), µm | 55.0 | 60.0 | 67.0 | 75.0 | 80.0 | 90.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 55.0 | 50.0 | 67.0 | 75.0 | 80.0 | 90.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 65 302 | 55 604 | 118 049 | 165 586 | 200 960 | 286 133 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 7 173 | 6 168 | 12 506 | 17 184 | 20 610 | 28 719 |
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
- 2016-04-28 12:45:57 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium conicum_3.png
- 2014-07-14 09:29:44 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium conicum_3.png
- 2014-07-14 09:28:29 Regina Hansen - Added media: Protoperidinium conicum_3.png
- 2011-09-26 17:56:42 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium conicum_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 17:55:27 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Protoperidinium conicum_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 14:16:17 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium conicum_1.gif