Protoperidinium steinii (E. Jørgensen) Balech, 1974

Protoperidinium steinii
A living cell at different focal planes. (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Protoperidinium steinii
- 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: 238280
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 52678
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- Dyntaxa ID: 238280
- Tropic type
- H
- Morphology
- Cell pyriform with a long apical horn, two three-winged antapical horns. 1'-plate is meta and 2a-plate is penta
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 39-60 µm, width 22-44 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.
Biovolumes
Species | Protoperidinium steinii |
---|---|
Author | (E. Jørgensen) Balech 1974 |
Division | DINOPHYTA (PYRROPHYTA) |
Class | Dinophyceae |
Order | PERIDINIALES |
Trophy | HT |
Geometric shape | ![]() |
Formula | p/12*d^2*(h+d/2)*0,75 |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 32-37 | 37-42 | 25-30x25-30 | 30-40x30-40 | 50-60x35-45 | 40-50x40-50 | 50-60x40-50 |
Height(h), µm | 30.0 | 50.0 | 27.5 | 35.0 | 55.0 | 45.0 | 55.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 35.0 | 40.0 | 27.5 | 35.0 | 40.0 | 45.0 | 45.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 11 419 | 21 980 | 6 122 | 12 621 | 23 550 | 26 825 | 30 799 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 395 | 2 580 | 777 | 1 532 | 2 753 | 3 111 | 3 542 |
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 09:31:09 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium steinii_3.png
- 2014-07-14 09:30:21 Regina Hansen - Added media: Protoperidinium steinii_3.png
- 2011-09-26 18:12:31 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Protoperidinium steinii_2.gif
- 2011-09-26 18:11:58 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Protoperidinium steinii_2.gif
- 2011-09-14 14:26:37 Bengt Karlson - Deleted media: Protoperidinium steinii_1194526030.mov