Rhizosolenia robusta Norman in Pritchard, 1861

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Rhizosolenia robusta

Two living cells (DIC)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

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Title
Rhizosolenia robusta
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
Two living cells (DIC)
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Synonym names

  • Neocalyptrella robusta

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Life form
Solitary
Size
Diameter = 48-400 µm, cell length 0.5 -1 mm
Literature
Cupp, E. E. 1943. Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America. Bulletin of the Scripps Inst. Oceanogr. of the University of California. 5: 1-237.
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart.186 pp.
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.
Sundström, B. G. 1986. The marine genus Rhizosolenia. Doctoral Dissertation, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 117 pp.