Navicula transitans Cleve
Navicula transitans
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Navicula transitans
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237599
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 39057
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237599
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- The size and the poorly developed intercostal membranes around the raphe.
- Other remarks
- There are several similar taxa see Heimdal (1970)
Distribution: Coastal waters of Iceland and Norway, Gullmarsfjorden (common during the springbloom) - Life form
- Solitary
- Size
- Apical axis = 32-49 µm, transapical axis =7-9 µm
- Resting spore
- 0
- Literature
- Heimdal, B. R. 1970. Morphology and distribution of two Navicula species in Norwegian Coastal waters. Nytt Magasin for botanikk. 17: 65-75.
Subordinate taxa
| Illustration | Taxon name |
|---|---|
|
Navicula transitans var. derasa |
|
Navicula transitans var. transitans |
