Teleaulax amphioxeia (Conrad) Hill, 1992

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Teleaulax amphioxeia

A-D = A living cell; B&C = Dorsal pyrenoid; D = Grain near the cell anterior; E-F = Cells in Lugol, notice pyrenoid and long ventral flagellum. A-D (BF). E-F (DIC)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Teleaulax amphioxeia
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
A-D = A living cell; B&C = Dorsal pyrenoid; D = Grain near the cell anterior; E-F = Cells in Lugol, notice pyrenoid and long ventral flagellum. A-D (BF). E-F (DIC)
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Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
The shape of the cell, the longer ventral flagellum and a long ventral furrow
Other remarks
Together with Plagioselmis prolonga its one of the most common species of Cryptophyceae on the swedish west coast
Distribution: Gulf of Finland, western Baltic, Skagerrak, Atlantic coast of Belgium, east coast of America, Japan
Life form
Solitary with two flagella
Size
8-11 µm long and 4-6 µm wide
Literature
Hill, D. R. A. 1992c. Teleaulax amphioxeia Conrad (Hill), comb. nov. (Cryptophyceae). Baltic Sea Identification Sheet No. 13. Ann. Bot. Fennici. 175-176.
Hill, D. R., Moestrup, Ø. & Vørs, N. 1992. Rekylalger (Cryptophyceae). In: Thomsen, H. A. (ed.) Plankton i de indre danske farvande. Havforskning fra Miljøstyrelsen, Copenhagen, pp. 251-265.

Biovolumes

Species Teleaulax amphioxeia
Author (Conrad) Hill 1992
Division CRYPTOPHYTA
Class Cryptophyceae
Order CRYPTOMONADALES
Trophy AU
Geometric shape cone + half sphere
Formula p/12*d^2*(h+d/2)
Size class 1 2 3
Unit cell cell cell
Size range 8-10x4-5 10-12x5-6 12-16x6-8
Height(h), µm 9.0 11.0 14.0
Diameter(d1), µm 4.5 5.5 7.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 60 109 224
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 10 18 35

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

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