Chaetoceros seiracanthus Gran, 1897
Chaetoceros seiracanthus
Resting spores (DIC & SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- 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
- Dyntaxa ID: 237344
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37460
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237344
- 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 |  |
| 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
- 2011-09-26 12:47:12 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros seiracanthus_1.gif
- 2011-09-23 20:20:15 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros seiracanthus_1.gif
