Cochlodinium citron

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Cochlodinium citron Kofoid & Swezy, 1921

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinophyceae (Class) > Gymnodiniales (Order) > Gymnodiniaceae (Family) > Cochlodinium (Genus)

WoRMS: 232653

Properties

Type:heterotroph

First record for the Black Sea

The species was reported first time for the Black Sea :
year - 1960
found by - Georgieva L.V.
reference - Georgieva L.V., 1979
Was found in Black Sea Bosphorus area 6.1960 (T = 7.39°C, S = 18.5‰, 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.
Comments: mentioned earlier by Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1948 (Sevastopol)

Occurrence

	References
Black Sea	Kiselev I.A., 1950; Gomez F. & Boicenko L., 2004; Mikaelyan A.S. et al., 2008; Georgieva L.V., 1979 (Bosphorus area)
Bulgaria	S. Moncheva(IO-BAS), 2010
Geogria
Romania
Russia	O.Yasakova, 2010 (NE); Yasakova O.N., 2010a(NE);
Turkey
Ukraine	Senicheva M.I., 2008 (Karadag); Zaitsev Y.P. & B.G. Alexandrov, 1998; Krahmalniy A.; Dereziuk, N., 2008; Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006 (NW); Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1948 (Sevastopol); Ivanov A. I., 1964; Krakhmalny A. F., 2011a

Morphometry

Ref	Region	Length (µm)	Width (µm)	Thickness (µm)	Flattering factor
Kiselev I.A., 1950		37-49	25-32

Cell volume

	Minimum	Average	Maximum	Database
1	4288	9106	15897	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	7539.8		7539.8	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	prolate spheroid
K(flattening factor)	1
More accurate shape	-

Hillebrand et al., 1999 - prolate spheroid (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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1950

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2010

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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.

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.

Gomez_F.,_Boicenko_L.,2004. An annotated checklist of dinoflagellates in the Black Sea. Hidrobiologia, Vol. 517: 43-59.

Ivanov A. I., 1964. Notes on characteristic of systematic composition of phytoplankton in the north-western Black sea. Proceedings of Odessa Biological Station(5): 51 - 54.

Kiselev_I.A.,_1950. Thecate Flagellates (Dinoflagellata) of the Seas and Freshwater Reservoirs of the USSR., USSR Acad. Sci. Publ. House, Moscow-Leningrad, 280 pp.

Krakhmalny A. F., 2011a. Dinophyta of Ukraine (illustrated book for identification). Kiev:Alterpres, 444 pp.

Krakhmalny A.F., Panina Z.A., Krakhmalny M.A., 2006. In P.M.Tsarenko and S.P.Wasser and E.Nevo (ed.): Dinophyta. Algae of Ukraine: Diversity, Nomenclature, Taxonomy, Ecology and Geography, Ruggell. A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.G., Liechtenstein, Vol. 1: 470-532.

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.

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

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.

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.

Sukhanova I. N. & A. Ye. Cheban, 1990. Heterotrophic phytoplankton of the Black Sea in the early spring development of the phytocenosis. Oceanology, Vol. 30(6): 724–792.

O.Yasakova,_2010. Phytoplankton of the northern-eastern part of Black Sea 1995 - 2009. Personal list.

Yasakova O.N., 2010. The new species of phytoplankton in the north-eastern part of the Black Sea. Russian Journal of Biological Invasions(4): 90-97.

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

ToDo: check first record