Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

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Noctiluca scintillans

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Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney, 1810) Kofoid, 1920
= Medusa scintillans Macartney 1810 (basionym)
= Noctiluca miliaris Suriray ex Lamarck, 1816 (mentioned for the Black Sea)
= Medusa scintillans Macartney 1810; Medusa marina Slabber 1771; Mammaria scintillans Ehrenberg 1834; Noctiluca marina Ehrenberg 1834 (other synonyms)

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinophyceae (Class) > Noctilucales (Order) > Noctilucaceae (Family) > Noctiluca (Genus)

WoRMS: 109921

Properties

Environment: marine
Biogeographic group: warmwater
Type:heterotroph
Bioluminescence:Sweeny, 1963 (Pacific Ocean, as Noctiluca miliaris); Poupin, J.P., A.S. Cussatlegras & P. Geistdoerfer, 1999 (Atlantic Ocean, as Noctiluca miliaris); Tett P.B., 1971 (Atlantic Ocean); C.L.J. Marcinko et al., 2013
Black Sea bioluminescence: Bityukov E. P., Evstigneev P. V., Tokarev Yu. N., 1993

First record for the Black Sea

The species was reported first time for the Black Sea :
 year - 1868
 reference - Mechnikov I. M., 1868 (Mechnikov I. I. Black Sea pelagic fauna notes. Proceedings I Russian Naturalists Congress. 1868; Zool. Dep.)
Information found in: V.Nikitin. La distribution vericale du plancton dans la mer Noire. II. Zooplancton (les Copepodes et les Cladoceres exceptes) (avec 7 planches). Proceedings of the Sevastopol Biological Station, Vol. I, USSR Academy of Science, Liningrad, 1939.

Occurrence

  References
Black Sea Kiselev I.A., 1950; Gomez F. & Boicenko L., 2004; Ivanov A.I., 1965; Bityukov E. P., Evstigneev P. V., Tokarev Yu. N., 1993
Bulgaria Petrova V., 1963; Petrova V., 1957; Valkanov A., 1957
Geogria Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1948 (Batumi); Gvarishvili Ts., 2010
Romania
Russia Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1948 (Novorossiysk); Vershinin A.O., Moruchkov A.A., Leighfield T. et al., 2005
Turkey Ozturk B., 1998; M.Turkoglu, T.Koray, 2002; Koray T., 2004; Baytut O., Gonulol A., Koray T., 2010; Seyfettin Tas, Erdogan Okus, 2006; Gülnur Özdemyr, Orhan Ak, 2012
Ukraine Pereyaslavtseva, S. M. 1886; Reinhard, L.V. 1909; Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1948 (Sevastopol, Odessa, Karadag); Krahmalniy A.; Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006 (NW); Ryabushko L.I., 2003; Zernov S.A., 1904 (Sevatopol); Lebedev V., 1916; Ivanov A. I., 1964; Prokudina L. A., 1952; Krakhmalny A. F., 2011a

Morphometry

Ref Region Length (µm) Width (µm) Thickness (µm) Flattering factor
Kiselev I.A., 1950 200-1500


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
 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 1 x x x x 13 x x 15 x 18 x 22 x x x x


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 72 x 73 x 87 x 93 x x 105 x x 109 x


1 - as Noctiluca miliaris13 - as Noctiluca miliaris15 - as Noctiluca miliaris18 - as Noctiluca miliaris22 - as Noctiluca miliaris72 - as Noctiluca miliaris73 - as Noctiluca miliaris87 - as Noctiluca miliaris93 - as Noctiluca miliaris105 - as Noctiluca miliaris109 - as Noctiluca miliaris



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Personal list, based on monitoring(scientific research) of scientist (not published as article)
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Last revision on 20-05-2013

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