Pronoctiluca acuta

From Black Sea Phytoplankton checklist

Pronoctiluca acuta (Lohmann, 1912) Schiller, 1933

= Rhynchomonas acuta Lohmann (basionym)

= Rhynchomonas acuta Lohmann (other synonyms)

Classification

Chromista (Kingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinophyceae (Class) > Noctilucales (Order) > Protodiniferaceae (Family) > Pronoctiluca (Genus)

WoRMS: 233180

Properties

Type:heterotroph

First record for the Black Sea

The species was reported first time for the Black Sea :
year - 1968
found by - Georgieva L.V.
reference - Georgieva L.V., 1979
Was found in Black Sea Bosphorus area (Depth = 75-125m)
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; Bryantseva Yu., 2000; Georgieva L.V., 1979 (Bosphorus area)
Bulgaria
Geogria
Romania
Russia
Turkey
Ukraine	Senicheva M.I., 2008 (Karadag); Zaitsev Y.P. & B.G. Alexandrov, 1998; Senichkina L.G. et al., 2001; Nesterova D.A., Terenko L.M., Terenko G.V., 2006 (NW)

Morphometry

Ref	Region	Length (µm)	Width (µm)	Thickness (µm)	Flattering factor
Kiselev I.A., 1950	cold waters of Atlantic ocean	33

Cell volume

	Minimum	Average	Maximum	Database
1	526	2269,7	9420	Cell volumes of phytoplankton of the Black Sea A.S.Mikaelyan, L.G.Senichkina, L.A.Pautova, L.V.Georgieva, V.Dyakonov
2	654.5	4483.7	12959.1	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	cone + half sphere
K(flattening factor)	1
More accurate shape	-

Hillebrand et al., 1999 - cone + half sphere (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

1950

2000

2010

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References

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

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.

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

Mikaelyan_A.S._et_al.,_2008. Cell volumes of phytoplankton of the Black Sea. Database.

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.

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.

Sukhanova I. N. & A. Ye. Cheban, 1990. Heterotrophic phytoplankton of the Black Sea in the early spring development of the phytocenosis. Oceanology, Vol. 30(6): 724–792.

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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