Chaetoceros brevis Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros brevis
Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik
Additional image information
- Title
- Chaetoceros brevis
- Photographer/artist
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Copyright holder
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Institute
- SMHI
- Contributor
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Sampling date
- 2013-04-06
- Geographic area
- Kattegat - off shore
- Location
- Anholt E
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- DIC/Nomarski
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237304
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa
- Dyntaxa ID: 237304
- Other remarks
- What have been referred to C. brevis could possibly belong to several species according to Rines & Hargraves (1988). In the material from Skagerrak the outer valve of the resting spores had spine like extensions.
- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 12-40 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- Literature
- Gran, H. H. 1908. Diatomeen. In: Brandt, K. & Apstein, C. (eds), Nordisches Plankton 19: 1-146.
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
Sundström, B. 1973. Chaetoceros arter i Öresund. MSc. Thesis Univ. of Lund. 77 pp.
External links
Biovolumes
Species | Chaetoceros brevis |
---|---|
Author | Schütt 1895 |
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 | 7 | 8 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 18-22x8 | 18-22x11 | 18-22x14 | 18-22x16 | 18-22x19 | 10-14x10 | 14-18x8-15 | 22-30x20 |
Height(h), µm | 8.0 | 11.0 | 14.0 | 16.0 | 19.0 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 20.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 22.0 | 22.0 | 22.0 | 22.0 | 22.0 | 12.0 | 16.0 | 25.0 |
Diameter(d2), µm | 18.0 | 18.0 | 18.0 | 18.0 | 18.0 | 10.0 | 14.0 | 20.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 2 487 | 3 419 | 4 352 | 4 974 | 5 906 | 942 | 1 934 | 7 850 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 163 | 212 | 257 | 287 | 330 | 74 | 133 | 415 |
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
- 2013-11-01 14:49:56 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros brevis_5.jpg
- 2013-11-01 14:49:44 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Chaetoceros brevis_5.jpg
- 2013-11-01 14:48:43 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros brevis_4.jpg
- 2013-11-01 14:47:29 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Chaetoceros brevis_4.jpg
- 2013-05-14 07:03:55 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros brevis_3.jpg
- 2013-05-14 07:03:10 Regina Hansen - Added media: Chaetoceros brevis_3.jpg
- 2012-10-04 10:41:45 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros brevis_2.jpg
- 2012-10-04 10:40:40 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Added media: Chaetoceros brevis_2.jpg
- 2011-10-03 20:40:35 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros brevis_1.gif
- 2011-10-03 20:39:12 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Chaetoceros brevis_1.gif