Chaetoceros radicans F.Schütt

View image in original size

Chaetoceros radicans

A&B = Vegetative chains (arrow=spines or capilli); C&D = Resting spores (BF)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

Additional image information

Title
Chaetoceros radicans
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
A&B = Vegetative chains (arrow=spines or capilli); C&D = Resting spores (BF)
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
Setae with capilli(not always), paired resting spores
Other remarks

Distribution: Worldwide
Life form
Cells united in chains
Size
Diameter = 6-25 µm
Resting spore
+
Literature
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.