Chaetoceros coronatus Gran, 1897

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Chaetoceros coronatus

Resting spores (DIC)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Chaetoceros coronatus
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
Resting spores (DIC)
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Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
Resting spore
Life form
Cells united in chains
Size
Diameter = 10-47 µm
Resting spore
+
Literature
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.

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Biovolumes

Species Chaetoceros coronatus
Author Gran 1897
Division CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA)
Class Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae)
Order EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES)
Trophy AU
Geometric shape oval cylinder
Formula p/4*d1*d2*h
Size class 1 2
Unit cell cell
Size range 10-12x20-24 12-18x25-35
Height(h), µm 22.0 30.0
Diameter(d1), µm 11.0 15.0
Diameter(d2), µm 9.0 12.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 1 710 4 239
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 121 252

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),
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