Nitzschia sigma

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Nitzschia sigma (Kützing) W. Smith, 1853

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariales (Order) > Bacillariaceae (Family) > Nitzschia (Genus)

WoRMS: 149213

Properties

Environment: marine
Habitat: benthic

Occurrence

	References
Black Sea	Bryantseva Yu., 2000; Ivanov A.I., 1965
Bulgaria
Geogria
Romania	Boicenco L. Updated list from Bodeanu N., 1987-88; Petranu A., 1997; Bodeanu N., 1987-1988
Russia
Turkey	Ozturk B., 1998; M.Turkoglu, T.Koray, 2002; Seyfettin Tas, Erdogan Okus, 2006
Ukraine	Zaitsev Y.P. & B.G. Alexandrov, 1998; Morozova-Vodyanitskaya N.V., 1948 (Odessa, Sevastopol); 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	Average	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	35.3	46.6	98.2	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 - prism on parallelogram
(Genus is very variable in shape. The sigmoid and rhombic cells can be calculated as prism on a parallelogram. Elliptic species are to be calculated as elliptic prisms, linear species are 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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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.

Bryantseva_Yu.,_2000. Variability of the Black Sea phytoplankton structural characteristics. PhD thesis, Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NASU.

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.

Morozova-Vodyanitskaya_N.V.,_1948. Phytoplankton of the Black Sea: Part 1. Tr. Sevast. Biol. Stantsii, Vol. 6: 39–72.

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.

Ozturk B., 1998. Black Sea Biological Diversity, Turkey. Black Sea Environmental Series, Vol. 9, United Nations Publication, New York, 144 pp.

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

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.

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.

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