Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

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Pyrocystis noctiluca

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Pyrocystis noctiluca J. Murray, 1885 ex Haeckel, 1890
= Dissodinium lunula (Schütt, 1895) Pascher, 1976 partim; Pyrocystis lunula (Schütt) Schütt, 1896; Dissodinium lunula (Schütt, 1895) Pascher, 1976; Diplodinium lunula Dogiel; Pyrocystis pseudonoctiluca Wyville-Thompson, 1876; Dissodinium pseudolunula Swift ex Elbrächter & Drebes, 1978 (mentioned for the Black Sea)


Classification

Protozoa (Kingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinophyceae (Class) > Pyrocystales (Order) > Pyrocystaceae (Family) > Pyrocystis (Genus)

WoRMS: 110332

Properties

Bioluminescence:Sweeny, 1963 (Pacific Ocean, as Pyrocystis noctiluca); Poupin, J.P., A.S. Cussatlegras & P. Geistdoerfer, 1999 (Atlantic Ocean);
Black Sea bioluminescence: Bityukov E. P., Evstigneev P. V., Tokarev Yu. N., 1993


First record for the Black Sea

The species was reported first time for the Black Sea :
 year - 1989
 reference - Kovaleva T.M., 1989

First record for the Black Sea

The species was reported first time for the Black Sea (as Pyrocystis pseudonoctiluca) :
 year - 1970
 found by - Georgieva L.V.
 reference - Georgieva L.V., 1979
Was found in Black Sea Bosphorus area 12.1970 (T = 6.52°C, S = 18.4‰, Depth = 100m)
Information found in: Georgieva L.V., 1979 Phytoplankton of straits and nearest waters of Mediterranean basin. PhD thesis. Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NASU., Sevastopol, Ukraine, 1979. - 195p.
Remarks: mentioned earlier by Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1948 (Sevastopol)

Occurrence

  References
Black Sea Mikaelyan A.S. et al., 2008; Gomez F. & Boicenko L., 2004; Ivanov A.I., 1965; Georgieva L.V., 1979 (Bosphorus area); Bityukov E. P., Evstigneev P. V., Tokarev Yu. N., 1993
Bulgaria
Geogria
Romania
Russia
Turkey Denisenko V. V., 1964
Ukraine Senicheva M.I., 2008 (Sevastopol Bay, Sevastopol coastal zone, Karadag, Laspi Bay); Senichkina L.G. et al., 2001; Krahmalniy A.; Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1948 (Sevastopol); Bryantseva Yu., 2010



Cell volume

Minimum Average Maximum Database
1 10622 35226,6 140000 Cell volumes of phytoplankton of the Black Sea A.S.Mikaelyan, L.G.Senichkina, L.A.Pautova, L.V.Georgieva, V.Dyakonov
2 Bryantseva Yu., 2000. Changes in structural characteristic of phytoplankton in the Black Sea
3 Dereziuk, N., 2008. List of Phytoplankton Species Observed in the Water Area near the Zmiinyi Island in 2004-2007
4 Bryantseva Yu., 2010. Sevastopol Bay phytoplankton monitoring database 2008 -2009
5 Сеничкина Л.Г., 1983. Фитопланктон северо-западной части Черного моря в зимний период 1979.
6 Нестерова Д. А., 2003. Фитопланктон западной части Черного моря в летний период 1987.

* (volumes are in cubic microns), values extracted from database


Volume and surface area calculation

Shape
Simple shape
K(flattening factor)
More accurate shape -

Hillebrand et al., 1999 - ellipsoid (Hillebrand, H., Dürselen, C. D., Kirschtel, D., Pollingher, D. and Zohary, T. (1999) Biovolume calculation for pelagic and benthic microalgae. J. Phycol., 35, 403–424)


Appearance in checklists

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 33 34 35 36 38 49 54 55 56 57
x 1 x x 9 x 10 x 14 x 18 x x 26 x 38


58 63 67 68 72 73 74 75 77 78 84 85 86 87 88 89 92 93 94 99 100 101 102 103 105 108 109 110 116 117 118 119 120 123 125
  x 84


1 - as Pyrocystis lunula9 - as Pyrocystis lunula10 - as also Pyrocystis lunula14 - as Pyrocystis lunula18 - as Diplodinium lunula26 - as Pyrocystis lunula38 - as Pyrocystis pseudonoctiluca84 - as Pyrocystis lunula



List based on literature analysis
List extracted from database
List extracted from published paper, which is based on monitoring(scientific) research of scientist(s) and includes analysis of real collected data
Personal list, based on monitoring(scientific research) of scientist (not published as article)
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Last revision on 20-05-2013


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