Pseudoscourfieldia marina (Throndsen) Manton, 1975
Pseudoscourfeldia marina
Cell size: 2 x 4 µm. Small cells. Cells flat in one end from where two flagella with uneven length extends. Both flagellas much longer than the cell.
Photographer/artist Helena Höglander
Additional image information
- Title
- Pseudoscourfeldia marina
- Photographer/artist
- Helena Höglander
- Copyright holder
- Helena Höglander
- Institute
- Stockholm university, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Helena Höglander
- Caption
- Cell size: 2 x 4 µm. Small cells. Cells flat in one end from where two flagella with uneven length extends. Both flagellas much longer than the cell.
- Sampling date
- 2017-08-03
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - Northern Baltic proper
- Location
- Nyköping
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- Phase contrast
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238943
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 55526
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238943
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Flattened cell with two flagella of different length
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 3-5 µm
- Culture collections
-
SCCAP
The Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa at the University of Copenhagen
More info at http://www.sccap.dk.
Strains: K-0017 - Literature
- Moestrup, Ø. & Throndsen, J. 1988. Light and electron microscopial studies on Pseudoscourfeldia marina, a primitive scaly green flagellate (Prasinophyceae) with posterior flagella. Can. J. Bot. 66: 1415-1434.
Throndsen, J. 1993. The planktonic marine flagellates. In: (Tomas eds.) Marine Phytoplankton: a guide to naked flagellates and coccolithophorids. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 7-145.
Biovolumes
| Species | Pseudoscourfieldia marina |
|---|---|
| Author | (Throndsen) Manton 1975 |
| Division | CHLOROPHYTA |
| Class | Prasinophyceae (Micromonadophyceae) |
| Order | CHLORODENDRALES |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/6*l*d1*d2 |
| Size class | 1 |
|---|---|
| Unit | cell |
| Size range | 3-4 |
| Length(l1), µm | 3.4 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 2.6 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 1.3 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 6 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1.2 |
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
- 2018-12-07 14:15:51 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Pseudoscourfieldia marina_2.jpg
- 2018-12-07 14:13:11 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Added media: Pseudoscourfieldia marina_2.jpg
