Protoperidinium sinaicum

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Protoperidinium sinaicum (Matzenauer, 1933) Balech, 1974

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinophyceae (Class) > Peridiniales (Order) > Protoperidiniaceae (Family) > Protoperidinium (Genus)

WoRMS: 232948

Properties

Bioluminescence:Poupin, J.P., A.S. Cussatlegras & P. Geistdoerfer, 1999 (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 (as Peridinium sinaicum) :
year - 1962
found by - Georgieva L.V.
reference - Georgieva L.V., 1979
Was found in Black Sea Bosphorus area 10.1962 (T = 18.82°C, S = 18.36‰, Depth = 50m)
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	Gomez F. & Boicenko L., 2004; Mikaelyan A.S. et al., 2008; Georgieva L.V., 1979 (Bosphorus area); Bityukov E. P., Evstigneev P. V., Tokarev Yu. N., 1993; Sukhanova I. N., Belyaeva T. V., 1980
Bulgaria
Geogria
Romania
Russia
Turkey
Ukraine	Krahmalniy A.; Krakhmalny A. F., 2011a

Cell volume

	Minimum	Average	Maximum	Database
1	17162	17162	17162	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
K(flattening factor)
More accurate shape	-

Hillebrand et al., 1999 - 2 cones (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
	x							x					x																		x ³⁸

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 ⁸⁵

38 - as Peridinium sinaicum; 85 - as Peridinium sinaicum;

References

Bityukov E. P., Evstigneev P. V., Tokarev Yu. N., 1993. Luminescent dinoflagellata of the Black Sea as affected by anthropogenic factors. Hydrobiological Journal, Vol. 29: 27-34.^*
* - as Peridinium sinaicum

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.^*
* - as Peridinium sinaicum

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

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.

Sukhanova I. N., Belyaeva T. V., 1980. Species composition, distribution and diurnal changes in phytoplankton of the Black Sea in October of 1978. In: Pelagical ecosystems of the Black Sea, Nauka, M.: 65 - 91.^*
* - as Peridinium sinaicum

	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