Stellarima stellaris (Roper) Hasle & Sims, 1986
Stellarima stellaris
A = Single cell at different focal planes (BF); B = Central part of valve (DIC). arrowheads=central labiate processes
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Stellarima stellaris
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = Single cell at different focal planes (BF); B = Central part of valve (DIC). arrowheads=central labiate processes
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237406
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 47999
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237406
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Central labiate processes and with many small areolae per sector
- Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Diameter = 40-115 µm
- Literature
- Cupp, E. E. 1943. Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America. Bulletin of the Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. of the University of California. 5: 1-237.
Hasle, G. & Sims, P. A. 1986b. The diatom genera Stellarima and Symbolophora with comments on the genus Actinoptychus. British Phycological Journal., 21: 97-114.
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.
Biovolumes
Species | Stellarima stellaris |
---|---|
Author | (Roper) Hasle & Sims |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 40-50x20-30 | 65-75x30-40 | 70-80x35-45 | 110-130x55-65 |
Height(h), µm | 25.0 | 35.0 | 40.0 | 60.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 45.0 | 70.0 | 75.0 | 120.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 39 741 | 134 628 | 176 625 | 678 240 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 547 | 4 160 | 5 185 | 15 440 |
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