Chaetoceros eibenii Grunow in Van Heurck, 1882
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
Additional image information
- 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
- Dyntaxa ID: 237326
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37425
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237326
- 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 |  |
| 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),
PEG_BVOL.zip
