Rhodomonas marina (Dang.) Lemmerm.
Rhodomonas marina
Culture
Photographer/artist Gert Hansen
Additional image information
- Title
- Rhodomonas marina
- Photographer/artist
- Gert Hansen
- Copyright holder
- Gert Hansen
- Copyright stamp
- Gert Hansen
- Institute
- The Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa at the University of Copenhagen
- Contributing organisation
- SCCAP, University of Copenhagen
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Culture
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Contrast enhancement
- Not described
- Stain
- No stain
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238074
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 56401
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238074
- Tropic type
- A
- Other remarks
- According to Novarino (1991) the name Rhodomonas should be avoided. Common in spring in the brackish water layer of Gullmarsfjorden
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Length 16-30 µm, ventral to dorsal width 10-13 µm
- Culture collections
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SCCAP
The Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa at the University of Copenhagen
More info at http://www.sccap.dk.
Strains: K-0435 - Literature
- Hill, D. R. A. 1992b. Rhodomonas marina (Dangeard) Lemmermann (Cryptophyceae). Baltic Sea Identification Sheet No. 10. Ann. Bot. Fennici. 169-170.
Hill, D. R. A. & Wetherbee, R. 1989. A reappraisal of the genus Rhodomonas (Cryptophyceae). Phycologia. 28:143-148.
Novarino, G. 1991. Observations on Rhinomonas reticulata comb. nov. and R. reticulata var. eliniana var. nov. (Cryptophyceae), with comments on the genera Pyrenomonas and Rhodomonas. Nord. J. Bot. 11: 243-252.
Biovolumes
Species | Rhodomonas marina |
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Author | (Dangeard) Lemmermann 1908 |
Division | CRYPTOPHYTA |
Class | Cryptophyceae |
Order | CRYPTOMONADALES |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/12*d^2*(h+d/2) |
Size class | 1 |
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Unit | cell |
Size range | 20x6 |
Height(h), µm | 20.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 6.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 217 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 34 |
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
- 2011-10-07 14:50:22 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Rhodomonas marina_2.jpg
- 2011-10-07 14:50:00 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Rhodomonas marina_2.jpg
- 2011-10-03 20:19:19 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Rhodomonas marina_1.gif
- 2011-10-03 20:17:43 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Rhodomonas marina_1.gif