Rhizosolenia setigera Brightw.

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Rhizosolenia setigera

A = A living cell (LM); B&C = End of cells with process; D&E = Middle of cell with chloroplasts and nucleus (B-E=DIC)

Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna

Additional image information

Title
Rhizosolenia setigera
Photographer/artist
Mats Kuylenstierna
Copyright holder
Maria Kuylenstierna
Institute
University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
Contributor
Bengt Karlson
Caption
A = A living cell (LM); B&C = End of cells with process; D&E = Middle of cell with chloroplasts and nucleus (B-E=DIC)
Image galleries
Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat

Description

IDs in other systems
Tropic type
A
Morphology
Cell wall weakley silicified. Two dorsiventral columns of bands. External process long and straight
Other remarks
NB! Structure was discerned in LM (dry preparation)
Distribution: Worldwide
Life form
Solitary or in pairs
Size
Diameter = 4-25 µm
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.

Subordinate taxa

Illustration Taxon name
Rhizosolenia setigera f. pungens

Biovolumes

Species Rhizosolenia setigera
Author Brightwell 1858
Division CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA)
Class Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae)
Order EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES)
Trophy AU
Geometric shape cylinder
Formula p/4*d^2*h
Size class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Unit cell cell cell cell cell cell cell cell
Size range 4x300-450 7x400 10x400-450 15x400 20x200-300 20x500-600 25x500-650 50x700
Height(h), µm 375.0 400.0 425.0 400.0 220.0 520.0 575.0 700.0
Diameter(d1), µm 4.0 7.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 20.0 25.0 50.0
No. of cells/counting unit 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Calculated volume, µm3 4 710 15 386 33 363 70 650 69 080 163 280 282 109 1 373 750
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit 274 716 1 342 2 466 2 422 4 865 7 580 27 368

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

  • 2020-01-15 12:22:05 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Rhizosolenia setigera_6.jpg
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  • 2013-08-19 11:33:40 Susanne Busch - Updated media metadata for Rhizosolenia setigera_5.jpg
  • 2013-08-19 11:32:26 Susanne Busch - Added media: Rhizosolenia setigera_5.jpg
  • 2013-05-14 09:07:24 Regina Hansen - Updated media metadata for Rhizosolenia setigera_4.jpg
  • 2013-05-14 09:06:52 Regina Hansen - Added media: Rhizosolenia setigera_4.jpg
  • 2012-09-24 14:37:11 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Rhizosolenia setigera_3.jpg
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  • 2012-09-24 14:36:51 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Updated media metadata for Rhizosolenia setigera_2.jpg
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