Frustule (SEM)
Life-form: Solitary or in pairs
Size: Diameter = 6.5-29 µm
Resting spore:
Note:
Distinctive features: The central areola slightly larger, one central strutted process. Single labiate process between two marginal strutted processes. Often with linear areolation
Similar species: Thalassiosira leptopus
Distribution: Widely
Literature:
Hasle, G. R. & Fryxell, G. 1977. The genus Thalassiosira:
Some species with a linear areola array. Nova Hedwigia. 54:
15-47.
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, p. 162-331.