Thalassiosira mediterranea (Schröder) Hasle, 1990
Thalassiosira mediterranea
Valve in outside view (arrowhead=labiate process) (SEM)
Photographer/artist Mats Kuylenstierna
Additional image information
- Title
- Thalassiosira mediterranea
- Photographer/artist
- Mats Kuylenstierna
- Copyright holder
- Maria Kuylenstierna
- Institute
- University of Gothenburg, Marine botany
- Contributor
- Bengt Karlson
- Caption
- Valve in outside view (arrowhead=labiate process) (SEM)
- Image galleries
- Kuylenstierna, Skagerrak-Kattegat
Description
- IDs in other systems
- Dyntaxa ID: 237275
More info at http://www.artdata.slu.se/dyntaxa - AlgaeBase ID: 59680
More info at http://algaebase.org
- Dyntaxa ID: 237275
- Morphology
- Radial rays and ring of strutted processes midway valve center and margin
- Other remarks
Distribution: Warm water region to temperate (Hasle & Syvertsen 1996)- Life form
- Cells united in chains
- Size
- Diameter = 6-20 µm
- Literature
- Fryxell, G. & Hasle, G. R.1977. The genus Thalassiosira: Some species with a modified ring of central strutted processes. Beih. zur Nova Hedwigia. 54: 67-89.
Hasle, G. R. 1990. The planktonic marine diatom Thalassiosira mediterranea (synonym Thalassiosira stellaris). Diatom Research. 5: 415-418.
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.
