Stephanopyxis turris (Greville & Arnott in Gregory) Ralfs in Pritchard, 1861
Stephanopyxis turris
Surrounded by Ceratium lineatum
Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik
Additional image information
- Title
- Stephanopyxis turris
- Photographer/artist
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Copyright holder
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Institute
- SMHI
- Contributor
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Caption
- Surrounded by Ceratium lineatum
- Sampling date
- 2011-11
- Geographic area
- Kattegat - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Contrast enhancement
- DIC/Nomarski
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237448
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 39724
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237448
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Areolae of same size on whole valve
- Other remarks
- Several varieties are described
- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 10-115 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- 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.
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.
Biovolumes
Species | Stephanopyxis turris |
---|---|
Author | (Greville & Arnott in Gregory) Ralfs in Pritchard 1861 |
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 | 28-32 |
Height(h), µm | 40.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 30.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 28 260 |
Comment | 6 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 1 173 |
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
- 2012-09-28 08:55:40 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Stephanopyxis turris_2.jpg
- 2012-09-28 08:53:19 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Stephanopyxis turris_3.jpg
- 2012-09-28 08:51:06 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Stephanopyxis turris_3.jpg
- 2012-09-28 08:51:01 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Stephanopyxis turris_3.jpg
- 2012-09-28 08:50:44 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Stephanopyxis turris_2.jpg
- 2012-09-28 08:49:20 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Stephanopyxis turris_2.jpg