A = Cell with chloroplasts; B = Chain in girdle view; C = Chain in valve view; D = Valve view. arrow=central process; E = Girdle view. A=(BF), B-E=(DIC)
Life-form: Cells solitary or chains with few cells
Size: Diameter = 5-20 µm
Resting spore:
Note:
Distinctive features: With many small chloroplasts, setae perpendicular to pervalvaraxis
Similar species:
Distribution: Worldwide
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.
Jensen, K. G. & Moestrup, Ø. 1998. The genus Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyceae) in inner Danish coastal waters. Opera Botanica. 133: 1-68.
Rines, J. E. B. & Hargraves, P. E. 1988. The Chaetoceros Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyceae) flora of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA. Bibliotheca Phycologica 79: 1-196
Sundström, B. 1973. Chaetoceros arter i Öresund. MSc. Thesis Univ. of Lund. 77 pp.
Takano, H. 1990. Diatoms. In "Red tide organisms in Japan-An illustrated taxonomic guide" (Y. Fukuyo, H. Takano, M. Chihara & K. Matsuoka, eds.). Uchida Rokakuho, Tokyo. pp.162-331