Asterionella gracillima

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Asterionella gracillima (Hantzsch) Heiberg, 1863

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Fragilariales (Order) > Fragilariaceae (Family) > Asterionella (Genus)

WoRMS: 149374

Properties

Environment: marine
Habitat: pelagic

Occurrence

	References
Black Sea	Ivanov A.I., 1965
Bulgaria	Konsulov A., 1998; Petrova V., 1963
Geogria
Romania	Petranu A., 1997; Boicenco L. Updated list from Bodeanu N., 1987-88; Bodeanu N., 1987-1988
Russia
Turkey	Ozturk B., 1998
Ukraine	Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1948 (Odessa, Sevastopol); Zaitsev Y.P. & B.G. Alexandrov, 1998; Lebedev V., 1916; Aksentiev B. N., 1926; Ivanov A.I. 1959; Ivanov A.I. 1960;

Volume and surface area calculation

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

Hillebrand et al., 1999 - box + 2 cylinders (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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References

Aksentiev B. N., 1926 Notes of phytoplankton in the Gulf of Odessa. Magazine of research institutes of Odessa, Vol. 2(4): 62 - 79.

Bodeanu N., 1987-1988. Structure et dynamique d'algoflore unicellulaire dans les eaux du littoral roumain de la mer Noire. Recherches marines(20/21): 19 - 250.

Boicenco L. Updated list from Bodeanu N., 1987-1988. Structure et dynamique de l'algoflore unicellulaire dans les eaux du littoral Roumain de la Mer Noire. Research Marines(20/21): 19-250.

Ivanov A. I., 1959. About phytoplankton mass development in the Northern-Western part of the Black Sea in 1954 - 1956. Proceedings of Odessa Biological Station(1): 6 - 33.

Ivanov A. I., 1960. Characteristics of qualitative composition and quantitative distribution of phytoplankton in the north-western Black Sea. Transactions of the hydrobiological society of the USSR, Vol. X: 182 - 196.

Ivanov_A.I.,_1965. Characteristics of the qualitative composition of Black Sea phytoplankton. In: The study of plankton of the Black and Azov seas, Naukova dumka, Kiev: 17-35.

Konsulov A., 1998. Black Sea Biological Diversity, Bulgaria. Black Sea Environmental Series, Vol. 5, United Nations Publication, New York, 131 pp.

Lebedev V., 1916. Observations on the composition and the change of surface plankton in the Gulf of Odessa. Imperial Society for Agriculture of Southern Russia notes, Vol. 87(book 1): 102 - 147.

Morozova-Vodyanitskaya_N.V.,_1948. Phytoplankton of the Black Sea: Part 1. Tr. Sevast. Biol. Stantsii, Vol. 6: 39–72.

Ozturk B., 1998. Black Sea Biological Diversity, Turkey. Black Sea Environmental Series, Vol. 9, United Nations Publication, New York, 144 pp.

Petranu_A.,_1997. Black Sea Biological Diversity, Romania. Black Sea Environmental Series, Vol. 4, United Nations Publication, New York, 315 pp.

Petrova V., 1963. The phytoplankton along the bulgarian coast of the Black sea during the 1954-1957 period. Bulletin de L'Institut central de recherche scientifique de pisciculture et de pecherie - Varna, Vol. 3: 31–60.

Zaitsev_Y._P._&_B._G._Alexandrov,_1998. Black Sea Biological Diversity, Ukraine. Black Sea Environmental Series, Vol. 7, United Nations Publication, New York, 351 pp.

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Last revision on 20-05-2013