Coccolithus pelagicus

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Coccolithus pelagicus (Wallich, 1877) Schiller, 1930

= Coccosphaera pelagica Wallich, 1877; Crystallolithus braarudii Gaarder, 1962 sensu Rowson et al., 1986; Crystallolithus hyalinus Gaarder & Markali, 1956 sensu Parke & Adams, 1960 (mentioned for the Black Sea)

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Haptophyta (Phylum) > Prymnesiophyceae (Class) > Coccolithales (Order) > Coccolithaceae (Family) > Coccolithus (Genus)

WoRMS: 178600

Properties

Environment: marine

First record for the Black Sea

The species was reported first time for the Black Sea :
year - 1970
found by - Georgieva L.V.
reference - Georgieva L.V., 1979
Was found in Black Sea Bosphorus area 3.1970 (T = 7.55°C, S = 18.2‰, Depth = 75m)
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	Mikaelyan A.S. et al., 2008; Georgieva L.V., 1979 (Bosphorus area)
Bulgaria	S. Moncheva(IO-BAS), 2010
Geogria
Romania
Russia
Turkey
Ukraine	Zaitsev Y.P. & B.G. Alexandrov, 1998; Senicheva M.I., 2008(Sevastopol Bay, Sevastopol coastal zone, Laspi Bay, Karadag); Senichkina L.G. et al., 2001

Cell volume

	Minimum	Average	Maximum	Database
1	3732	10197,7	33510	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	sphere
K(flattening factor)	1
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

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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
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References

Georgieva L.V., 1979. Phytoplankton of straits and nearest waters of Mediterranean basin (Фитопланктон проливов и прилежащих вод Средиземноморского бассейна). PhD thesis, Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NASU, Sevastopol, Ukraine.

Mikaelyan_A.S._et_al.,_2008. Cell volumes of phytoplankton of the Black Sea. Database.

S._Moncheva(IO-BAS),_2010. Species lists based on sampling identifications and literature. Personal list. Bulgarian waters.

Senicheva M.I., 2008. Species diversity, seasonal and annual variability of plankton microalgae near Crimea coast. In: The Black Sea microalgae: problems of biodiversity preservation and biotechnological usage, publisher, address, Ch. I: 5-18.

Senichkina L.G. et al., 2001. Species diversity of Black Sea phytoplankton in the southeastern coast of Crimea. Karadag: History, biology, archaeology. In: Collection of papers dedicated to 85th anniversary of Karadag Scientific Station, Sonat, Simferopol: 119-125.

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.

	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