Chaetoceros lauderi Ralfs inauder, 1864

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Chaetoceros lauderi

A = Two cells with resting spores (arrows=threads from the spore); B = Resting spore. (DIC)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Chaetoceros lauderi
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
A = Two cells with resting spores (arrows=threads from the spore); B = Resting spore. (DIC)
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
Technique
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Preservation
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Contrast enhancement
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Stain
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Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat, Diatom resting stages

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
Cells with many chloroplasts. Resting spores
Other remarks

Distribution: Warm water region to temperate
Life form
Cells united in chains
Size
Diameter = 18-50 µm
Resting spore
+
Literature
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 lauderi
Author Ralfs in Lauder 1864
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
Unit cell cell cell
Size range 15-17x28 17-19x32 20-22x44
Height(h), µm 28.0 32.0 44.0
Diameter(d1), µm 16.0 18.0 21.0
Diameter(d2), µm 9.0 9.0 12.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 3 165 4 069 8 704
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 199 244 451

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

Change History

  • 2011-09-26 14:08:45 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros lauderi_1.gif
  • 2011-09-26 12:46:41 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros lauderi_1.gif
  • 2011-09-23 20:18:55 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros lauderi_1.gif