Chaetoceros decipiens P.T. Cleve, 1873

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Chaetoceros decipiens

Photographer/artist Ann-Turi Skjevik

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Title
Chaetoceros decipiens
Photographer/artist
Ann-Turi Skjevik
Copyright holder
Ann-Turi Skjevik
Institute
SMHI
Contributing organisation
SMHI
Contributor
Ann-Turi Skjevik
Sampling date
2010-06
Geographic area
Kattegat - Swedish coast
Location
Swedish west coast
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
Technique
Light microscopy
Preservation
No preservation
Contrast enhancement
DIC/Nomarski
Stain
No stain
Image galleries
Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
With several chloroplasts, sibling setae partly fused, terminal setae thicker than the others
Other remarks

Distribution: Worldwide
Life form
Cells united in chains
Size
Diameter = 9-84 µm
Literature
Cleve, P. 1873a. On diatoms from the arctic sea. Bih. Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1: 1-28.
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

Biovolumes

Species Chaetoceros decipiens
Author P.T. Cleve 1873
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 3 4 5
Unit cell cell cell cell cell
Size range 15x11 16x21 27.5x16 30x19 70x22
Height(h), µm 11.0 21.0 16.0 19.0 22.0
Diameter(d1), µm 15.0 16.0 27.5 30.0 70.0
Diameter(d2), µm 10.0 16.0 21.0 30.0 30.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 1 295 4 220 7 253 13 424 36 267
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 96 251 389 641 1 436

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

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