Two cells (arrow=process) (BF)
Life-form: Solitary or united in loose chains
Size: Diameter = 8-70 µm, Pervalvar axis = 42-300 µm
Resting spore:
Note:
Distinctive features: Small process, valve structure too delicate to be resolved with LM
Similar species:
Distribution: Widely
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.