Chaetoceros seiracanthus Gran, 1897
Chaetoceros seiracanthus
apical axis: 8-10µm; pervalvar axis: 13-20µm
Photographer/artist Janina Kownacka
Additional image information
- Title
- Chaetoceros seiracanthus
- Photographer/artist
- Janina Kownacka
- Copyright holder
- Janina Kownacka
- Institute
- National Marine Fisheries Research Institute
- Contributing organisation
- HELCOM-PEG
- Contributor
- Janina Kownacka
- Caption
- apical axis: 8-10µm; pervalvar axis: 13-20µm
- Sampling date
- autumn 2008-2012
- Geographic area
- Baltic Sea - The Gulf of Gdansk
- Location
- Sopot, Gdynia
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
- Technique
- Light microscopy
- Preservation
- No preservation
- Stain
- No stain
- Image galleries
- HELCOM-PEG
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