Chaetoceros affinis Lauder, 1864
Chaetoceros affinis
A = Entire chain with large terminal setae; B&C = Parts of chains. All DIC
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Chaetoceros affinis
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = Entire chain with large terminal setae; B&C = Parts of chains. All DIC
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237298
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37390
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237298
- Tropic type
- A
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 7-30 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Cupp, E. E. 1943. Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America. Bulletin of the Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. of the University of California. 5: 1-237.
Hasle, G. R. & Syvertsen, E. E. 1996. Marine diatoms. In: Tomas, C. R. (ed.) Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, p. 5-385.
Jensen, K. G. & Moestrup, Ø. 1998. The genus Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyceae) in inner Danish coastal waters. Opera Botanica. 133: 1-68.
Rines, J. E. B. & Hargraves, P. E. 1988. The Chaetoceros Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyceae) flora of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA. Bibliotheca Phycologica 79: 1-196
Biovolumes
| Species | Chaetoceros affinis |
|---|---|
| Author | Lauder 1864 |
| Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
| Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
| Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
| Trophy | AU |
| Geometric shape |  |
| Formula | p/4*d1*d2*h |
| Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
| Size range | 8x20 | 12-15x15-18 | 12-18x22-28 | 8-12x18-22 | 12-18x18-22 | 12-18x25-35 |
| Height(h), µm | 20.0 | 16.5 | 25.0 | 20.0 | 20.0 | 30.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 8.0 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 10.0 | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 8.0 | 11.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 1 005 | 1 923 | 2 944 | 1 570 | 2 355 | 3 533 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 78 | 133 | 187 | 113 | 156 | 217 |
Source
Olenina, I., Hajdu, S., Edler, L., Andersson, A., Wasmund, N., Busch, S., Göbel, J.,
Gromisz, S., Huseby, S., Huttunen, M., Jaanus, A., Kokkonen, P., Ledaine, I. and Niemkiewicz,
E.
2006 Biovolumes and size-classes of phytoplankton in the Baltic Sea HELCOM Balt.Sea Environ. Proc. No. 106, 144pp. (PDF),
PEG_BVOL.zip
Change History
- 2012-09-28 10:55:04 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros affinis_5.jpg
- 2012-09-28 10:53:04 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Chaetoceros affinis_5.jpg
- 2011-10-13 12:48:52 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros affinis_4.jpg
- 2011-10-13 12:48:41 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Chaetoceros affinis_4.jpg
- 2011-10-13 12:48:26 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros affinis_3.jpg
- 2011-10-13 12:48:18 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Chaetoceros affinis_3.jpg
- 2011-10-13 12:48:02 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros affinis_2.jpg
- 2011-10-13 12:47:34 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Chaetoceros affinis_2.jpg
