Resting spore with long spines (=arrow) (BF)
Life-form: Cells united in chains
Size: Diameter = 15-50 µm
Resting spore: +
Note:
Distinctive features: Resting spore
Similar species: Chaetoceros lauderi
Distribution: Northern coldwater region to temperate (Hasle & Syvertsen 1996)
Literature:
Cleve, P. 1896b. Redogörelse för de svenska hydrografiske
undersökningarne februari 1896. V. Planktonundersökningar:
Vegetabilskt plankton. Bih. Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 22(III,
5): 1-33.
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.
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.