Vegetative cells. (PC)
Life-form: Solitary
Size: Diameter = 3-5 µm
Resting spore:
Note: Common in the brackish water layer of fiords and inlets. Confused with other small solitary Chaetoceros species
Distinctive features:
Similar species:
Distribution:
Literature:
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.