Skeletonema costatum (Grév.) Cleve, 1878
Skeletonema costatum
A = Chain (BF); B = Chain at different focus (DIC); C = Frustules (SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Skeletonema costatum
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- A = Chain (BF); B = Chain at different focus (DIC); C = Frustules (SEM)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237214
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 39687
More info at http://algaebase.org - REBECCA code: R0066
More info at http://www.freshwaterecology.info
- Dyntaxa ID: 237214
- Tropic type
- A
- Morphology
- Small cells linked firmly with long external tubes of the marginal strutted processes
- Other remarks
Distribution: Worldwide- Life form
- Cells united in long chains
- Size
- Diameter = 2 - 21 µm, pervalvaraxis 2-61 µm
- Resting spore
- ?
- Culture collections
-
SCCAP
The Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa at the University of Copenhagen
More info at http://www.sccap.dk.
Strains: K-0669 - Literature
- Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.
Hasle, G. R. 1973b. Morphology and taxonomy of Skeletonema costatum. (Bacillariophyceae). Norw. J. Bot. 20: 109-137.
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.
Medlin, L. K., Elwood, H. J., Stickel, S. & Sogin, M. L. 1991. Morphological and genetic variation within the diatom Skeletonema costatum (Bacillariophyta): evidence for a new species, Skeletonema pseudocostatum. J. Phycol. 27: 514-524.
Biovolumes
Species | Skeletonema costatum |
---|---|
Author | (Greville) P.T. Cleve 1878 |
Division | CHRYSOPHYTA (HETEROKONTOPHYTA) |
Class | Diatomophyceae (Bacillariophyceae) |
Order | EUPODISCALES (BIDDULPHIALES, CENTRALES) |
Trophy | AU |
Geometric shape | |
Formula | p/4*d^2*h |
Size class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
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Unit | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell | cell |
Size range | 2x3-5 | 3x3-5 | 3x6-8 | 4x7-8 | 5x7-10 | 6x7-10 | 7x7-10 | 10x5 | 2x14 | 3x9-14 | 3x15-25 | 4x9-14 | 4x15-25 | 5x9-14 | 5x15-25 | 6x9-14 | 6x15-25 | 7x9-14 | 7x15-25 | 8x9-14 | 8x15-25 | 10x9-14 | 10x15-25 |
Height(h), µm | 4.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 5.0 | 14.0 | 11.0 | 19.0 | 11.0 | 21.0 | 11.0 | 19.0 | 11.0 | 19.0 | 11.0 | 19.0 | 11.0 | 19.0 | 11.0 | 21.0 |
Diameter(d1), µm | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 10.0 |
No. of cells/counting unit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Calculated volume, µm3 | 13 | 28 | 49 | 94 | 167 | 226 | 327 | 393 | 44 | 78 | 134 | 138 | 264 | 216 | 373 | 311 | 537 | 423 | 731 | 553 | 955 | 864 | 1 649 |
Calculated Carbon pg/counting unit | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 23 | 32 | 37 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 26 | 23 | 35 | 30 | 47 | 39 | 61 | 48 | 75 | 69 | 117 |
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
- 2012-10-05 14:45:25 Ann-Turi Skjevik - Deleted media: Skeletonema costatum_1197322826.jpg
- 2011-10-18 16:38:47 Bengt Karlson - Deleted media: Skeletonema costatum_2.JPG
- 2011-10-17 09:20:33 Bengt Karlson - Added media: Skeletonema costatum_2.JPG