Chaetoceros constrictus Gran, 1897
Chaetoceros constrictus
Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik
Additional image information
- Title
- Chaetoceros constrictus
- Photographer/artist
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Copyright holder
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Copyright stamp
- Ann-Turi Skjevik
- Institute
- SMHI
- Contributor
- Malin Mohlin
- Geographic area
- Skagerrak - Swedish coast
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- Lugols iodine
- Contrast enhancement
- DIC/Nomarski
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237311
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa
- Dyntaxa ID: 237311
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Conspicuous constriction between valve mantle and girdle, two chloroplasts, apertures lanceolate, resting spores uniequally vaulted and with spines
- Other remarks
Distribution: Northern hemisphere- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 12-40 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.
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 constrictus |
---|---|
Author | Gran 1897 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 14-15x15 | 16x16 | 19x19 | 30x30 | 10-14x8 |
Height(h), µm | 15.0 | 16.0 | 19.0 | 30.0 | 8.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 15.0 | 16.0 | 19.0 | 30.0 | 12.0 |
Diameter(d2), µm | 14.0 | 16.0 | 14.0 | 15.0 | 10.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 2 473 | 3 215 | 3 967 | 10 598 | 754 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 163 | 201 | 239 | 529 | 62 |
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
- 2011-12-05 15:47:38 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros constrictus_3.jpg
- 2011-12-05 15:46:07 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Chaetoceros constrictus_3.jpg
- 2011-09-26 14:07:56 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros constrictus_2.gif
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