Chain (BF)
Life-form: Cells united in chains
Size: Diameter = 10-55 µm
Resting spore:
Note:
Distinctive features: Cells tightly packed together and with many small chloroplasts, windows small
Similar species: Chaetoceros eibenii
Distribution: Worldwide
Literature:
Cleve, P. T. 1897. A treatise on the phytoplankton of the Atlantic
and its tributaries and on the periodical change of the plankton of
Skagerak. Upsala, Swden. pp. 28.
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.
Rines, J. E. B. & Hargraves, P. E. 1988. The Chaetoceros Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyceae) flora of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA. Bibliotheca Phycologica 79: 1-196