Melosira varians

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Melosira varians C.A. Agardh, 1827

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Melosirales (Order) > Melosiraceae (Family) > Melosira (Genus)

WoRMS: 149043

First record for the Black Sea

The species was reported first time for the Black Sea :
year - 1918
found by - Aksentiev B. N., 1926
reference - Aksentiev B. N., 1926. Notes of phytoplankton in the Gulf of Odessa. Magazine of research institutes of Odessa, Vol. 2(4): 62 - 79.

Properties

Environment: marine; freshwater
Habitat: tychopelagic

Occurrence

	References
Black Sea	Ivanov A.I., 1965
Bulgaria	Konsulov A., 1998; Petrova V., 1963
Geogria
Romania	Boicenco L. Updated list from Bodeanu N., 1987-88; Petranu A., 1997; Bodeanu N., 1987-1988
Russia
Turkey
Ukraine	Zaitsev Y.P. & B.G. Alexandrov, 1998; Dereziuk, N., 2008; Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006 (NW); Aksentiev B. N., 1926; Ivanov A.I. 1959; Ivanov A.I. 1960;

Cell volume

	Minimum	Maximum	Database
1			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	251.3	251.3	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	cylinder
K(flattening factor)	1
More accurate shape	-

Hillebrand et al., 1999 - cylinder (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

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References

Aksentiev B. N., 1926 Notes of phytoplankton in the Gulf of Odessa. Magazine of research institutes of Odessa, Vol. 2(4): 62 - 79.

Bodeanu N., 1987-1988. Structure et dynamique d'algoflore unicellulaire dans les eaux du littoral roumain de la mer Noire. Recherches marines(20/21): 19 - 250.

Boicenco L. Updated list from Bodeanu N., 1987-1988. Structure et dynamique de l'algoflore unicellulaire dans les eaux du littoral Roumain de la Mer Noire. Research Marines(20/21): 19-250.

Dereziuk_N.,_2008. List of Phytoplankton Species Observed in the Water Area near the Zmiinyi Island in 2004-2007. In: Zmiinyi Island. Ecosystem of Coastal Waters: monograph, Astroprint, Odesa, Ch. XII: 208-218.

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.

Konsulov A., 1998. Black Sea Biological Diversity, Bulgaria. Black Sea Environmental Series, Vol. 5, United Nations Publication, New York, 131 pp.

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.

Petranu_A.,_1997. Black Sea Biological Diversity, Romania. Black Sea Environmental Series, Vol. 4, United Nations Publication, New York, 315 pp.

Petrova V., 1963. The phytoplankton along the bulgarian coast of the Black sea during the 1954-1957 period. Bulletin de L'Institut central de recherche scientifique de pisciculture et de pecherie - Varna, Vol. 3: 31–60.

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.

	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