Teleaulax amphioxeia (Conrad) Hill, 1992
Teleaulax amphioxeia
Cell size: 6 x 14 µm. Flagella two, ventral flagellum slightly longer than the dorsal.
Photographer/artist Helena Höglander
Additional image information
- Title
- Teleaulax amphioxeia
- Photographer/artist
- Helena Höglander
- Copyright holder
- Helena Höglander
- Institute
- Stockholm university, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Helena Höglander
- Caption
- Cell size: 6 x 14 µm. Flagella two, ventral flagellum slightly longer than the dorsal.
- Sampling date
- 2010-09-15
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - Southern Baltic proper
- Location
- Arkona Basin, Station BY2.
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- Phase contrast
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 238063
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 48350
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 238063
- 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 | |
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
Change History
- 2018-12-07 14:19:13 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Updated media metadata for Teleaulax amphioxeia_3.jpg
- 2018-12-07 14:17:04 Helena_Hoglander_PEG - Added media: Teleaulax amphioxeia_3.jpg
- 2012-10-05 14:48:38 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Teleaulax amphioxeia_2.JPG
- 2012-10-05 14:47:56 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Teleaulax amphioxeia_2.JPG