Protoperidinium oblongum (Aurivillius) Parke & Dodge in Parke & Dixon
Protoperidinium oblongum
SEM
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Protoperidinium oblongum
- 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
- SEM Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Preservation
- Not described
- Stain
- Shadow cast
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238270
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52661
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238270
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Size, form, 1'-plate is ortho and with a broad hexa 2a
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 90-120 µm, width 50-75 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.
Biovolumes
| Species | Protoperidinium oblongum |
|---|---|
| Author | (Aurivillius) Parke & Dodge in Parke & Dixon 1976 |
| 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 | 75-85 | 85-95 | 95-105 | 105-115 | 130-150 |
| Height(h), µm | 80.0 | 90.0 | 100.0 | 110.0 | 140.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 60.0 | 50.0 | 70.0 | 65.0 | 110.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 82 896 | 60 183 | 138 474 | 126 032 | 493 922 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 8 973 | 6 643 | 14 528 | 13 299 | 47 951 |
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
- 2013-11-05 08:24:30 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium oblongum_4.jpg
- 2013-11-05 08:21:50 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Protoperidinium oblongum_4.jpg
- 2012-09-28 14:13:49 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium oblongum_3.jpg
- 2012-09-28 14:13:21 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Protoperidinium oblongum_3.jpg
- 2012-09-28 14:13:04 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Protoperidinium oblongum_3.jpg
- 2012-09-28 14:11:34 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium oblongum_3.jpg
- 2012-09-28 14:10:54 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Protoperidinium oblongum_3.jpg
- 2011-10-03 21:24:53 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium oblongum_1.gif
- 2011-09-26 18:08:17 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium oblongum_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 18:07:23 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Protoperidinium oblongum_2.gif
