Chaetoceros seiracanthus Gran, 1897

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Chaetoceros seiracanthus

Resting spores (DIC & SEM)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Chaetoceros seiracanthus
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
Resting spores (DIC & SEM)
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
Technique
Not described
Preservation
Not described
Contrast enhancement
Not described
Stain
Not described
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat, Diatom resting stages

Description

IDs in other systems
Morphology
Resting spore
Other remarks

Distribution: Widely
Life form
Cells united in chains
Size
Diameter = 8-24 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.
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.
Jensen, K. G. & Moestrup, Ø. 1998. The genus Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyceae) in inner Danish coastal waters. Opera Botanica. 133: 1-68.
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 seiracanthus
Author Gran 1897
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 6-8x9-11 12-14x9-11 15-16x9-11
Height(h), µm 10.0 9.0 10.0
Diameter(d1), µm 7.0 13.0 15.0
Diameter(d2), µm 6.0 9.0 11.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 330 827 1 295
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 32 67 96

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

  • 2013-04-26 11:38:13 Janina Kownacka - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros seiracanthus_2.jpg
  • 2013-04-26 11:35:05 Janina Kownacka - Added media: Chaetoceros seiracanthus_2.jpg
  • 2011-09-26 14:09:18 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros seiracanthus_1.gif
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