Roperia tesselata (Roper) Grunow in Van Heurck, 1881
Roperia tesselata
A&B = A living cell with pseudonodule (A, arrow) and the exterior of labiate processes (B, arrowheads); C&D = Cleaned valve. A&B (DIC), C (BF) and D (PC).
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Roperia tesselata
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A&B = A living cell with pseudonodule (A, arrow) and the exterior of labiate processes (B, arrowheads); C&D = Cleaned valve. A&B (DIC), C (BF) and D (PC).
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237429
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 39580
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237429
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Warmwaterform: Marginal ring of prominent exterior of labiate processes. Pseudonodule distinct. Areolation.
- Other remarks
- Lee & Lee (1990) reported two distinct forms of this species
Distribution: Widely - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Diameter = 18 - 97 µm
- Literature
- 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.
Hendey, N. I. 1964. An introductory account of the smaller algae of British coastal waters. Part 5: Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms). HSMO, London. 317 pp.
Lee, J. H. & Lee, J. Y. 1990. A light and electron microscopy study on the marine diatom Roperia tesselata (Roper) Grunow. Diatom Research. 5: 325-335.
Biovolumes
| Species | Roperia tesselata |
|---|---|
| Author | Grunow ex Pelletan 1889 |
| Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
| Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
| Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
| Size class | 1 |
|---|---|
| Unit | cell |
| Size range | 60x30 |
| Height(h), µm | 30.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 60.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 84 780 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 2 859 |
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
