Chaetoceros borealis J.W. Bailey, 1854
Chaetoceros borealis
Chains (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Chaetoceros borealis
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Chains (BF)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237303
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 80291
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237303
- Tropic type
- A
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 12-46 µm
- Literature
- Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.
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.
Rines, J. E. B. & Hargraves, P. E. 1988. The Chaetoceros Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyceae) flora of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA. Bibliotheca Phycologica 79: 1-196
Sundström, B. 1973. Chaetoceros arter i Öresund. MSc. Thesis Univ. of Lund. 77 pp.
Biovolumes
| Species | Chaetoceros borealis |
|---|---|
| Author | J.W. Bailey 1854 |
| 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 | 8-12x19 | 13-16x30 | 17-20x26 | 21-24x22 | 25-28x26 | 29-32x28 |
| Height(h), µm | 19.0 | 30.0 | 26.0 | 22.0 | 26.0 | 28.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 11.0 | 15.0 | 18.0 | 22.0 | 26.0 | 30.0 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 9.4 | 12.8 | 15.3 | 18.7 | 22.1 | 25.5 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 1 534 | 4 504 | 5 621 | 7 105 | 11 728 | 16 815 |
| Comment | HD fac.=0.85 | HD fac.=0.85 | HD fac.=0.85 | HD fac.=0.85 | HD fac.=0.85 | HD fac.=0.85 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 110 | 265 | 317 | 383 | 575 | 770 |
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
- 2021-05-27 06:33:16 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros borealis_3.jpg
- 2021-05-27 06:29:51 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Chaetoceros borealis_3.jpg
- 2014-03-26 08:25:58 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros borealis_2.jpg
- 2014-03-26 08:24:51 Susanne Busch - Added media: Chaetoceros borealis_2.jpg
