Prorocentrum vaginula

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Prorocentrum vaginula (Stein, 1883) Dodge 1975

= Exuviaella vaginula (F.Stein) F.Schtt. (mentioned for the Black Sea)

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinophyceae (Class) > Prorocentrales (Order) > Prorocentraceae (Family) > Prorocentrum (Genus)

WoRMS: 232300

Properties

Environment: marine

Occurrence

	References
Black Sea	Kiselev I.A., 1950; Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1954; Ivanov A.I., 1965
Bulgaria
Geogria	Komakhidze A. & N.Mazmanidi, 1998
Romania
Russia	Nezlin N.P., Zernova V.V., 1983 (NE)
Turkey
Ukraine	Krahmalniy A.; Zaitsev Y.P. & B.G. Alexandrov, 1998; Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006 (NW); Ryabushko L.I., 2003; Krakhmalny A. F., 2011a

Morphometry

Ref	Region	Length (µm)	Width (µm)	Thickness (µm)	Flattering factor
Kiselev I.A., 1950		30-40		8-15

Volume and surface area calculation

	Shape
Simple shape
K(flattening factor)	0.86
More accurate shape	Model P.micans

Hillebrand et al., 1999 - ellipsoid (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

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	x ¹⁵								x ²³				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 ⁶⁷

1 - as Exuviaella vaginula; 15 - as Exuviaella vaginula; 23 - as Exuviaella vaginula; 67 - as Exuviaella vaginula;

References

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.^*
* - as Exuviaella vaginula

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.^*
* - as Exuviaella vaginula

Komakhidze_A._&_N._Mazmanidi_1998. Black Sea Biological Diversity, Georgia. Black Sea Environmental Series, Vol. 8, United Nations Publication, New York, 167 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.

Morozova-Vodyanitskaya_N.V.,_1954. Phytoplankton of the Black Sea: Part 2. Tr. Sevast. Biol. Stantsii, Vol. 8: 11-99.^*
* - as Exuviaella vaginula

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.

Nezlin N.P., Zernova V.V., 1983. Species composition of the phytoplankton in the north-eastern part of the Black Sea and sizes of some species. In: Seasonal changes of the Black Sea phytoplankton, Nauka, M.: 6 - 12.^*
* - as Exuviaella vaginula

Ryabushko L.I., 2003. Potentially harmful microalgae of the Azov and Black Sea basin. EKOSI-Gidrofizika, Sevastopol, 288 pp.

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