Coscinodiscus granii var. aralensis

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Coscinodiscus granii var. aralensis (Ostenfeld 1908) Hustedt

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscales (Order) > Coscinodiscaceae (Family) > Coscinodiscus (Genus)

First record for the Black Sea

The species was reported first time for the Black Sea :
year - 1934
found by - Mikhaylovskaya Z.N.
reference - Mikhaylovskaya Z.N., 1936
Novorossiysk
Information found in: Mikhaylovskaya Z.N., 1936 Phytoplankton of the bay of Novorossiysk and its vertical distribution. Works of the V.M. Arnoldi biological station of Novorossiysk. Vol. II, N. 1, 1936, p. 37-54.

Occurrence

	References
Black Sea	Proshkina-Lavrenko A.I., 1955; Ivanov A.I., 1965
Bulgaria
Geogria
Romania
Russia	Mikhaylovskaya Z.N., 1936 (Novorossiysk);
Turkey
Ukraine	Senicheva M.I., 2008 (Karadag); Zaitsev Y.P. & B.G. Alexandrov, 1998; Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006 (NW); 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 - cylinder
(resembles asymmetric cylinder with added spherical segments) (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

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.

Mikhaylovskaya Z.N., 1936. Phytoplankton of the bay of Novorossiysk and its vertical distribution. Works of the V.M. Arnoldi biological station of Novorossiysk, Vol. II(1): 37-54.

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.

Proshkina-Lavrenko_A.I.,_1955. Diatomovye vodorosli planktona Chernogo morya. AN SSSR, Moscow-Leningrad, 222 pp.

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.

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