Chaetoceros radicans F.Schütt
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
- Dyntaxa ID: 237343
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37456
More info at http://algaebase.org - REBECCA code: R0152
More info at http://www.freshwaterecology.info
- Dyntaxa ID: 237343
- 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.
