Chaetoceros simplex Ostenfeld
Chaetoceros simplex
A living cell (DIC)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- 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
- Dyntaxa ID: 237346
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 37463
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237346
- 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 |  |
| 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),
PEG_BVOL.zip
