Rhizosolenia pungens Cleve-Euler, 1937
Rhizosolenia pungens
Cell and detail of process (DIC&BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Rhizosolenia pungens
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Cell and detail of process (DIC&BF)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Synonym names
- Rhizosolenia setigera f. pungens
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237469
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 47275
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- Dyntaxa ID: 237469
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- External process
- Other remarks
- Mainly found in brackish waters (Hasle&Syvertsen 1996)
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Diameter = 6-15 µm
- Literature
- Cleve-Euler, A. 1937. Undersökningar över Öresund. Sundets plankton. I Sammansättning och fördelning. Lunds Univ. Årsskrift N. F. Avd. 2. 33: 1-50.
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp
Hasle, G. R. & Syvertsen, E. E. 1996. Marine diatoms. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 5-385.
Wasmund, N. & Kunert, K. 1996. Rhizosolenia pungens (speciessheet no. 390)In: Snoeijs, P. & Kasperoviciene, J. (eds.) Intercalibration and distribution of diatom species in the Baltic Sea. OPULUS PRESS UPPSALA, Vol. 4, p.126
Biovolumes
Species | Rhizosolenia pungens |
---|---|
Author | Cleve-Euler 1937 |
Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 4x200-300 | 5x300-400 | 6x375-450 | 7x375-450 | 8x650-700 | 10x400 | 15x400-550 | 20x260 |
Height(h), µm | 250.0 | 385.0 | 350.0 | 400.0 | 690.0 | 400.0 | 475.0 | 260.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 4.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 15.0 | 20.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 3 140 | 7 556 | 9 891 | 15 386 | 34 666 | 31 400 | 83 897 | 81 640 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 197 | 402 | 501 | 716 | 1 384 | 1 278 | 2 835 | 2 773 |
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
- 2013-08-19 11:37:18 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Rhizosolenia pungens_3.jpg
- 2013-08-19 11:36:13 Susanne Busch - Added media: Rhizosolenia pungens_3.jpg
- 2013-05-14 09:06:20 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Rhizosolenia pungens_2.jpg
- 2013-05-14 09:05:49 Regina Hansen - Added media: Rhizosolenia pungens_2.jpg