Chaetoceros densus P.T. Cleve, 1901
Chaetoceros densus
Chain (BF)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- 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
- Dyntaxa ID: 237321
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37418
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237321
- 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 |  |
| 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),
PEG_BVOL.zip
