Chaetoceros eibenii Grunow in Van Heurck, 1882

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Chaetoceros eibenii

A = Chain; B = Part of chain; C = Valve view; D&E = Part of chain at two focal planes (arrows=hexagonal setae) (DIC)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Chaetoceros eibenii
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
A = Chain; B = Part of chain; C = Valve view; D&E = Part of chain at two focal planes (arrows=hexagonal setae) (DIC)
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
Setae bent toward nearest end, valve with central process, windows lanceolate to hexagonal. Cell with many chloroplasts
Other remarks

Distribution: Warm water region to temperate
Life form
Cells united in chains
Size
Diameter = 25-80 µm
Resting spore
+
Literature
Cupp, E. E. 1943. Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America. Bulletin of the Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. of the University of California. 5: 1-237.
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 eibenii
Author Grunow in Van Heurck 1882
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 15-25x15-25
Height(h), µm 20.0
Diameter(d1), µm 20.0
Diameter(d2), µm 15.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1
Calculated volume, µm3 4 710
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 274

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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