Protoperidinium depressum (J.W. Bailey) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium depressum
SEM
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Protoperidinium depressum
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Copyright stamp
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- Dept. of Marine botany, University of Gothenburg
- Contributing organisation
- University of Gothenburg
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- SEM
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Not described
- Stain
- Sputter coated
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238257
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52641
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238257
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Two long divergent antapical horns and a prominent apical horn, 1'-plate is ortho, 2a-plate is quadra
- Other remarks
- Luminescent species
Distribution: Worldwide - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 116-200 µm, width 110-150 µm
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 pp.
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart.186 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.
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 depressum |
---|---|
Author | (J.W. Bailey) Balech 1974 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | PERIDINIALES |
Trophy | HT |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/12*d^2*(h+d/2)*0,8 |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 65-75 | 95-105 | 105-115 | 115-130 | 130-150 |
Height(h), µm | 110.0 | 100.0 | 110.0 | 125.0 | 140.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 70.0 | 100.0 | 110.0 | 90.0 | 115.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 148 731 | 314 000 | 417 934 | 288 252 | 546 766 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 15 536 | 31 338 | 40 990 | 28 919 | 52 753 |
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 14:38:23 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium depressum_4.jpg
- 2012-10-05 14:37:47 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Protoperidinium depressum_4.jpg
- 2012-09-24 14:38:02 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium depressum_3.jpg
- 2012-09-24 14:37:52 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Protoperidinium depressum_3.jpg
- 2011-09-26 17:59:35 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium depressum_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 17:58:17 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Protoperidinium depressum_2.gif