Chaetoceros simplex Ostenfeld

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Chaetoceros simplex

A living cell (DIC)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Chaetoceros simplex
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
A living cell (DIC)
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Life form
Solitary
Size
Diameter = 6-24 µm
Resting spore
+
Literature
Jensen, K. G. & Moestrup, Ø. 1998. The genus Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyceae) in inner Danish coastal waters. Opera Botanica. 133: 1-68.
Ostenfeld, C. H. 1912. A revision of the marine species of Chaetoceras Ehbg. sect. Simplicia Ostf. Meddel. Komm. Havunders. Serie Plankton. 1(10): 1-11.
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 simplex
Author Ostenfeld 1901
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 4 5 6 7 8
Unit cell cell cell cell cell cell cell cell
Size range 8-9x8-9 8-9x10-14 8-9x15-16 8-9x19-20 10-12x10-11 11-12x11-12 11-13x14 14-17x16-17
Height(h), µm 8.5 12.0 15.5 19.5 10.5 11.2 14.0 16.5
Diameter(d1), µm 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 11.0 11.2 12.0 15.5
Diameter(d2), µm 7.2 7.2 7.2 7.2 9.4 9.5 10.2 13.2
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 410 579 747 940 848 937 1 345 2 645
Comment HD fac.=0.85 HD fac.=0.85 HD fac.=0.85 HD fac.=0.85 HD fac.=0.85 HD fac.=0.85 HD fac.=0.85 HD fac.=0.85
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 38 50 62 74 68 74 99 172

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),
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