Protoperidinium divergens (Ehrenberg) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium divergens
A living cell at different focal planes. (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Protoperidinium divergens
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A living cell at different focal planes. (BF)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238259
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52643
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238259
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- 1'-plate is meta. Theca is strongly reticulated with spines. Size
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide ?- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 75-85 µm, width 56-65 µm
- Literature
- Dodge, J. D. 1982. Marine Dinoflagellates of the British Isles. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London. 303 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 divergens |
|---|---|
| Author | (Ehrenberg) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell | cell |
| Size range | 80x60 | 85x65 | 83x70 |
| Height(h), µm | 80.0 | 85.0 | 83.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 60.0 | 65.0 | 70.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 82 896 | 103 921 | 121 037 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 8 973 | 11 095 | 12 803 |
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
- 2014-07-14 09:27:55 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium divergens_3.png
- 2014-07-14 09:27:03 Regina Hansen - Added media: Protoperidinium divergens_3.png
- 2011-09-26 18:01:50 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium divergens_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 18:00:42 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Protoperidinium divergens_2.gif
