Rhizosolenia pungens Cleve-Euler, 1937

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Rhizosolenia pungens

Photographer/artist Susanne Busch

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Title
Rhizosolenia pungens
Photographer/artist
Susanne Busch
Copyright holder
Susanne Busch
Copyright stamp
S.Busch (IOW)
Institute
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende
Contributing organisation
HELCOM-PEG
Contributor
Susanne Busch
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
Technique
Light microscopy
Preservation
Lugols iodine
Image galleries
HELCOM-PEG

Synonym names

  • Rhizosolenia setigera f. pungens

Description

IDs in other systems
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 cylinder
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