Protoperidinium leonis (Pavillard) Balech, 1974
Protoperidinium leonis
Empty cysts, dorsal view (courtesy of Anna Godhe) (BF).
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Protoperidinium leonis
- 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
- Empty cysts, dorsal view (courtesy of Anna Godhe) (BF).
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Not described
- Stain
- Not described
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat, Dinoflagellate cysts
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238265
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52652
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- Dyntaxa ID: 238265
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Shape of cell, 1'-plate and 2a-plate
- Other remarks
- There are two types of cysts reported (Inoue 1990)
Distribution: Widely - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 50-95 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Balech, E. 1976b. Sur quelques Protoperidinium (Dinoflagellata). Vie et Milieu. 26: 27-46.
Inoue, H. 1990. Dinoflagellates. In “Red tide organisms in Japan-An illustrated taxonomic guide”. (Y. Fukuyo, H. Takano, M. Chihara & K. Matsuoka eds) Uchida Rokakuho, Tokyo. pp. 150-151
Pavillard, M. J. 1916c. Recherches sur les péridiniens du Golfe du Lion. Travail de l'Institut de Botanique de l'Université de Montpellier, Série mixte-Mémoire. 4: 9-70.
Wall, D. & Dale, B. 1968b. Modern dinoflagellate cysts and evolution of the Peridiniales. Micropaleontology. 14: 265-304.
Biovolumes
Species | Protoperidinium leonis |
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Author | (Pavillard) Balech 1974 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | PERIDINIALES |
Trophy | HT |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/12*d^2*l*0.7 |
Size class | 1 |
---|---|
Unit | cell |
Size range | 60 |
Height(h), µm | 60.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 60.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 39 564 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 4 480 |
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
- 2011-09-26 18:04:12 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium leonis_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 18:03:07 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Protoperidinium leonis_2.gif