Chaetoceros teres P.T. Cleve, 1896

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Chaetoceros teres

Resting spore with long spines (=arrow) (BF)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Chaetoceros teres
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
Resting spore with long spines (=arrow) (BF)
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
Tropic type
A
Morphology
Resting spore
Other remarks

Distribution: Northern coldwater region to temperate (Hasle & Syvertsen 1996)
Life form
Cells united in chains
Size
Diameter = 15-50 µm
Resting spore
+
Literature
Cleve, P. 1896b. Redogörelse för de svenska hydrografiske undersökningarne februari 1896. V. Planktonundersökningar: Vegetabilskt plankton. Bih. Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 22(III, 5): 1-33.
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.
Sundström, B. 1973. Chaetoceros arter i Öresund. MSc. Thesis Univ. of Lund. 77 pp.

Biovolumes

Species Chaetoceros teres
Author P.T. Cleve 1896
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
Unit cell cell
Size range 15-20x20-45 20x40-60
Height(h), µm 27.5 50.0
Diameter(d1), µm 17.5 20.0
Diameter(d2), µm 14.9 17.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 5 619 13 345
Comment HD fac.=0.85 HD fac.=0.85
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 317 638

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

  • 2011-10-13 13:39:09 Malin Mohlin - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros teres_2.jpg
  • 2011-10-13 13:38:34 Malin Mohlin - Added media: Chaetoceros teres_2.jpg
  • 2011-09-26 14:09:45 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros teres_1.gif
  • 2011-09-26 12:47:37 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros teres_1.gif
  • 2011-09-23 20:21:57 Bengt Karlson - Updated media metadata for Chaetoceros teres_1.gif