A&B = Living cells (BF&DIC); C&D = Chain viewed at two focal planes (arrowhead=strutted processes) (DIC); E = Strutted processes. (PC)
Life-form: Cells united in chains
Size: Diameter = 17-46 µm
Resting spore:
Note:
Distinctive features: Conspicuous connecting thread, morphology of external part of the strutted processes, size
Similar species: Detonula moseleyana
Distribution: Worldwide
Literature:
Drebes, G. 1974. Marines Phytoplankton, Eine Auswahl der
Helgoländer Planktonalgen (Diatomeen, Peridineen). Georg Thieme
Verlag, Stuttgart. 186 pp.
Hasle, G. R. 1973a. Some marine plankton genera of the diatom family Thalassiosiraceae. Beiheft zur Nova Hedwigia. 45: 1-49.
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.