Chaetoceros diadema (Ehrenberg) Gran, 1897

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Chaetoceros diadema

A = Vegetative cells in chain (BF); B = Resting spores (BF). A&B=living cells

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Chaetoceros diadema
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
A = Vegetative cells in chain (BF); B = Resting spores (BF). A&B=living cells
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
One chloroplast, base of setae short, resting spores.
Other remarks

Distribution: Cosmopolitan in colder seas.
Life form
Cells united in chains
Size
Diameter = 8 - 50 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.

Biovolumes

Species Chaetoceros diadema
Author (Ehrenberg) 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 3 4 5
Unit cell cell cell cell cell
Size range 20x17 20x15 15-25x30 15-25x20 28-40x27
Height(h), µm 17.0 15.0 30.0 20.0 27.0
Diameter(d1), µm 20.0 20.0 20.0 20.0 34.0
Diameter(d2), µm 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 25.5
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 4 004 3 533 7 065 4 710 18 376
Comment HD fac.=0.75 HD fac.=0.75 HD fac.=0.75 HD fac.=0.75 HD fac.=0.75
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 240 217 381 274 827

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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