Chaetoceros tenuissimus Meunier, 1913

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Chaetoceros tenuissimus

Vegetative cells. (PC)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Chaetoceros tenuissimus
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
Vegetative cells. (PC)
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Other remarks
Common in the brackish water layer of fiords and inlets. Confused with other small solitary Chaetoceros species
Life form
Solitary
Size
Diameter = 3-5 µm
Literature
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.
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 tenuissimus
Author Meunier 1913
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
Unit cell cell cell cell
Size range 2.5x3 3x3-5 4x5 5x5
Height(h), µm 3.0 4.0 5.0 5.0
Diameter(d1), µm 2.5 3.0 4.0 5.0
Diameter(d2), µm 2.2 2.6 3.5 4.4
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 13 25 55 85
Comment HD fac.=0.87 HD fac.=0.87 HD fac.=0.87 HD fac.=0.87
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 2 4 7 11

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

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