Chaetoceros densus P.T. Cleve, 1901

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Chaetoceros densus

Chain (BF)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Chaetoceros densus
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
Chain (BF)
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
Cells tightly packed together and with many small chloroplasts, windows small
Other remarks

Distribution: Worldwide
Life form
Cells united in chains
Size
Diameter = 10-55 µm
Literature
Cleve, P. T. 1897. A treatise on the phytoplankton of the Atlantic and its tributaries and on the periodical change of the plankton of Skagerak. Upsala, Swden. pp. 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 densus
Author P.T. Cleve 1901
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
Unit cell
Size range 40x20
Height(h), µm 20.0
Diameter(d1), µm 40.0
Diameter(d2), µm 25.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1
Calculated volume, µm3 15 700
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 728

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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