Pseudo-nitzschia pungens

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Pseudo-nitzschia pungens (Grunow ex P.T. Cleve, 1897) Hasle, 1993

= Nitzschia pungens Grunow ex Cleve, 1897 (mentioned for the Black Sea)

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariales (Order) > Bacillariaceae (Family) > Pseudo-nitzschia (Genus)

WoRMS: 160528

Properties

Environment: marine
Harmful effect: This species is usually non-toxic. Toxic clones have been reported from New Zealand and the West Coast of the U.S.A.
(Moestrup, Ø., Akselman, R., Cronberg, G., Elbraechter, M., Fraga, S., Halim, Y., Hansen, G., Hoppenrath, M., Larsen, J., Lundholm, N., Nguyen, L. N., Zingone, A. (Eds) (2010) IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae at http://www.marinespecies.org/hab/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160528 on 2010-10-15)

Occurrence

	References
Black Sea	Proshkina-Lavrenko A.I., 1955; Mikaelyan A.S. et al., 2008
Bulgaria	S. Moncheva(IO-BAS), 2010
Geogria
Romania
Russia	O.Yasakova, 2010 (Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Gelendzhik, NE); Vershinin A.O., Moruchkov A.A., Leighfield T. et al., 2005; Vershinin A. O., Orlova T. Yu., 2008
Turkey	Ozturk B., 1998; M.Turkoglu, T.Koray, 2002; Eker E., 1998; Koray T., 2004; Baytut O., Gonulol A., Koray T., 2010; Seyfettin Tas, Erdogan Okus, 2006; Gülnur Özdemyr, Orhan Ak, 2012
Ukraine	Senicheva M.I., 2008(Karadag); Senichkina L.G. et al., 2001; Ryabushko L.I., 2003; Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., 2009; Ryabushko L. I., et al. 2008; Terenko L., Terenko G., 2012

Cell volume

	Minimum	Average	Maximum	Database
1	105	549,2	1800	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	ell. cylinder
K(flattening factor)	0.65
More accurate shape	-

Hillebrand et al., 1999 - prism on parallelogram
(Species with a linear valve view should be calculated as boxes) (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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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 ⁷			x						x ¹⁶								x	x			x	x ³⁴		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					x											x						x									x

7 - as Nitzschia pungens; 16 - as Nitzschia pungens; 34 - as Nitzschia pungens;

References

Baytut O., Gonulol A., Koray T., 2010. Temporal variations of phytoplankton in relation to eutrophication in Samsun bay, southern Black Sea. Turk. J. Fish. Aquat. Sc.(10): 363-372.

Eker, E. 1998. Abundance and biomass of micro and nanophytoplankton in the northwestern and southern Black Sea in 1995. Master thesis, Middle East Technical University, IMS.^*
* - as Nitzschia pungens

Gülnur Özdemyr, Orhan Ak, 2012. Qualitative and quantitative changes of phytoplankton in the South East Black sea (Trabzon coasts). Yunus Arastýrma Bülteni(4): 13 - 25

Koray_T.,_2004. Potentially Toxic and Harmful Phytoplankton Species Along the Coast of the Turkish Seas. In Steidinger, K. A., J. H. Landsberg, C. R. Tomas, and G. A. Vargo (Eds.). 2004. Harmful Algae 2002. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Institute of Oceanography, and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, 335-337.

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.

Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., 2009. Karkinit Bay phytoplankton in September of 2008. Ecological safety of coastal and shelf zones and comprehensive use of shelf resources: Collected scientific papers(20): 293 - 300.

Ozturk B., 1998. Black Sea Biological Diversity, Turkey. Black Sea Environmental Series, Vol. 9, United Nations Publication, New York, 144 pp.^*
* - as Nitzschia pungens

Proshkina-Lavrenko_A.I.,_1955. Diatomovye vodorosli planktona Chernogo morya. AN SSSR, Moscow-Leningrad, 222 pp.^*
* - as Nitzschia pungens

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

Ryabushko_L._I.,_et_al._2008. Toxic diatom of Pseudo-nitzschia calliantha Lundholm, Moestrup et Hasle from the Black Sea: morphology, taxonomy, ecology. Marine ecological journal, Vol. 7(3): 51 - 60.

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.

Senichkina L.G. et al., 2001. Species diversity of Black Sea phytoplankton in the southeastern coast of Crimea. Karadag: History, biology, archaeology. In: Collection of papers dedicated to 85th anniversary of Karadag Scientific Station, Sonat, Simferopol: 119-125.

Seyfettin Tas, Erdogan Okus, 2006. Investigation of qualitatively phytoplankton in the Turkish coasts of the Black Sea and a species list. J. Black sea/Mediterranean Environment, Vol. 12: 181-191.

Terenko L., Terenko G., 2012. Dominant Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyta) species in the Black Sea (Ukraine). Bot. Lith., 18(1): 27–34.

M.Turkoglu,_T.Koray,_2002. Phytoplankton species succession and nutrients in the Southern Black Sea (Bay of Sinop). Turkish Journal of Botany(26): 235–252.

Vershinin A.O., Moruchkov A.A., Leighfield T. et al., 2005. Potentially toxic algae in northeast Black sea coastal phytoplankton in 2000-2002. Oceanology, Vol. 45(2): 240-248.

Vershinin A. O., Orlova T. Yu., 2008. Toxic and harmful algae in coastal waters of the Russian federation. Oceanology, Vol. 48(4): 568-582.

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

	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