Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

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Pyrocystis fusiformis

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Pyrocystis fusiformis (Wyville Thomson, 1876 ex Haeckel, 1890) Blackman, 1902
= Dissodinium fusiformis (Thomson ex J. Murray) Matzenauer, 1933); Murracystis fusiformis Wyville Thomson in J. Murray 1885 ex Haeckel 1890; Pyrocystis hamulus Cleve (mentioned for the Black Sea)


Classification

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

WoRMS: 110328

Properties

Bioluminescence:SWIFT et al. (1973 : 422 ; lλmax = 473-475 nm, émission de photons environ un millier de fois plus forte que les Gonyaulax, spécimens de l’Atlantique tropical nord ouest, Caraïbes, golfe du Mexique) ; WIDDER & CASE (1982 : 517 ; cinétique de l’émission lumineuse, cultures) ; ARNESON et al. (1988 : 281, fig. 4 ; émission entre 430-550 nm, 5 flashs successifs, d'amplitudes décroissantes, durée 7000 ms) ; WIDDER et al. (1983 : 798 ; lmax = 471-472 nm, Californie) ; BUSKEY (1995 : 154, nord de la mer d’Arabie)


First record for the Black Sea

The species was reported first time for the Black Sea (as Pyrocystis hamulus,) :
 year - 1968
 found by - Georgieva L.V.
 reference - Georgieva L.V., 1979
Was found in Black Sea Bosphorus area 11.1968 (T = 13.2°C, S = 17.2‰, Depth = 0m)
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.



Occurrence

  References
Black Sea Georgieva L.V., 1979 (Bosphorus area)
Bulgaria
Geogria
Romania
Russia
Turkey Ozturk B., 1998
Ukraine


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 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
 


38 - as Pyrocystis hamulus



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Last revision on 20-05-2013

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