Chroococcus minimus

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Chroococcus minimus (von Keissler) Lemmermann, 1904

= Gloeocapsa minima (Keissler) Hollerbach, 1938 (mentioned for the Black Sea)

Classification

Bacteria (Kingdom) > Cyanobacteria (Phylum) > Cyanophyceae (Class) > Chroococcales (Order) > Chroococcaceae (Family) > Chroococcus (Genus)

WoRMS: 162714

Occurrence

	References
Black Sea
Bulgaria
Geogria	Gvarishvili Ts., 2010
Romania
Russia
Turkey
Ukraine	Dereziuk, N., 2008; Zaitsev Y.P. & B.G. Alexandrov, 1998; Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006 (NW); Nesterova D.A., 2002 (NW, dry estuary); Terenko G., Kovalyshyna S., Grandova M., 2011; Nesterova D. A., 2003

Cell volume

	Minimum	Average	Maximum	Database
1				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	0.1		8.2	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		4		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 - sphere (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

1886

1900

1950

2000

2010

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 ⁸												x ²⁰							x ²⁷			x ³⁵

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 ¹⁰⁰

8 - as Gloeocapsa minima; 20 - as Gloeocapsa minima; 27 - as Gloeocapsa minima; 35 - as Gloeocapsa minima; 100 - as Gloeocapsa minima;

References

Dereziuk_N.,_2008. List of Phytoplankton Species Observed in the Water Area near the Zmiinyi Island in 2004-2007. In: Zmiinyi Island. Ecosystem of Coastal Waters: monograph, Astroprint, Odesa, Ch. XII: 208-218.^*
* - as Gloeocapsa minima

Gvarishvili_Ts.,_2010. Phytoplankton species composition along the Georgian Black Sea coast. Personal list.^*
* - as Gloeocapsa minima

Nesterova D. A., 2002. Phytoplankton of the dry estuary and contiguous part of the Black sea. Environmental safety of coastal and shelf zone and comprehensive use of shelf resource, Vol. 1(6): 355-364.^*
* - as Gloeocapsa minima

Nesterova D. A., 2003. Variability of specific surface of cells of phytoplankton in western part of Black sea. Algologia, Vol. 13(1): 16-25.^*
* - as Gloeocapsa minima

Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006. In: North-Western part of the Black Sea: biology and ecology, Naukova dumka, Kiev: 557-576.^*
* - as Gloeocapsa minima

Terenko G., Kovalyshyna S., Grandova M., 2011. Long-term structural changes in the phytoplankton community of NWBS. In: 3rd Bi-annual BS Scientific Conference and UP-GRADE BS-SCENE Project Joint Conference Abstracts, Odessa, Ukraine 1 - 4 November 2011, 192.^*
* - as Gloeocapsa minima

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.^*
* - as Gloeocapsa minima

	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)
	Identification book

Last revision on 20-05-2013