Cell and detail of process (DIC&BF)
Life-form: Solitary
Size: Diameter = 6-15 µm
Resting spore:
Note: Mainly found in brackish waters (Hasle&Syvertsen 1996)
Distinctive features: External process
Similar species: Rhizosolenia setigera
Distribution:
Literature:
Cleve-Euler, A. 1937. Undersökningar över Öresund.
Sundets plankton. I Sammansättning och fördelning. Lunds
Univ. Årsskrift N. F. Avd. 2. 33: 1-50.
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.
Wasmund, N. & Kunert, K. 1996. Rhizosolenia pungens (species sheet no. 390)In: Snoeijs, P. & Kasperoviciene, J. (eds.) Intercalibration and distribution of diatom species in the Baltic Sea. OPULUS PRESS UPPSALA, Vol. 4, p.126