Chaetoceros compressus Lauder, 1864
Chaetoceros compressus
A = Vegetative chain; B = Chain with resting spores; C = Chain with thickened intercalary setae. (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Chaetoceros compressus
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = Vegetative chain; B = Chain with resting spores; C = Chain with thickened intercalary setae. (BF)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237309
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37405
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237309
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Many chloroplasts (usually), two types of inner setae
- Other remarks
Distribution: Widely- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 5-40 µm
- Resting spore
- +
- 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 compressus |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell |
| Size range | 5x5 | 6-7x11-15 | 8x8 | 10x14 |
| Height(h), µm | 5.0 | 13.0 | 8.0 | 14.0 |
| Diameter(d1), µm | 5.0 | 6.5 | 8.0 | 10.0 |
| Diameter(d2), µm | 4.3 | 5.5 | 6.8 | 8.5 |
| No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Calculated volume, µm3 | 83 | 366 | 342 | 934 |
| Comment | HD fac.=0.85 | HD fac.=0.85 | HD fac.=0.85 | HD fac.=0.85 |
| Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 10 | 35 | 33 | 74 |
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
