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Chaetoceros didymus Ehrenberg

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae
Superorder Chaetocerotanae
Order Chaetocerotales
Family Chaetocerotaceae
Genus Chaetoceros

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Chaetoceros didymus Ehrenberg
Silverdale, Washington, USA; Waterfront park, Lugols, 1000x, DIC. 10 Apr 2010. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Chaetoceros didymus Ehrenberg
Silverdale, Washington, USA; Waterfront park, Lugols, 400x, DIC. 10 Apr 2010. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Chaetoceros didymus Ehrenberg
Silverdale, Washington, USA; Waterfront park, Lugols, 400x, DIC. 10 Apr 2010. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

 

Chaetoceros didymus Ehrenberg Silverdale, Washington, USA; Waterfront park, Lugols, 400x, DIC

Publication details
Chaetoceros didymus Ehrenberg 1845: 75

Original publication: Ehrenberg, C.G. (1844). Mittheilung über 2 neue lager von Gebirgsmassen aus infusorien als Meeres-Absatz in Nord Amerika und eine vergleichung derselben mit den organischen Kreide-Ge-bilden in Europa und Afrika. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung Geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königl. Preuss. Akademie Der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1844: 57-97.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Chaetoceros is Chaetoceros tetrachaeta Ehrenberg.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Hyalochaete

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Chaetoceros didymus Ehrenberg)
Europe: Croatia (Vilicic et al. 2009), Spain (Pérez, Maidana & Comas 2009).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, Anon 2011).

South America: Brazil (Eskinazi-Leça et al. 2010).

Asia: Japan (Ishii et al. 2011), Korea (Lee 2011), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Harper et al. 2012).

Key references
Bérard-Therriault, L., Poulin, M. & Bossé, L. (1999). Guide d'identification du phytoplancton marin de l'estuaire et du Golfe du Saint-Laurent incluant également certains protozoaires. Publication Spéciale Canadienne des Sciences Halieutiques et Aquatiques 128: 1-387.

Hasle, G.R. & Syvertsen, E.E. (1996). Marine diatoms. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 5-385. San Diego: Academic Press.

Hoppenrath, M., Elbrächter, M. & Drebes, G. (2009). Marine phytoplankton Selected microphytoplankton species from the North Sea around Helgoland and Sylt. pp. [1]-264, figs 1-87. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Ishii, K.-I, Iwataki, M., Matsuoka, K. & Imai, I. (2011). Proposal of identification criteria for resting spores of Chaetoceros species (Bacillariophyceae) from a temperate coastal sea. Phycologia 50(4): 351-362.

Jameson, I. & Hallegraeff, G.M. (2010). Planktonic diatoms. In: Algae of Australia. Phytoplankton of temperate waters. (Hallegraeff, G.M., Bolch, C.J.S., Hill, D.R.A., Jameson, I, LeRoi, J.-M., McMinn, A., Murray, S., de Salas, M.F. & Saunders, K. Eds), pp. 16-82. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS; CSIRO Publishing.

Lee, J.H. (2011). Algal flora of Korea. Volume 3, Number 5. Chrysophyta: Bacillariophyceae: Centrales: Biddulphiineae: Centrales. pp. [1-6], 1-94, figs 1-66. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

Shevchenko, O.G., Orlova, T.Y. & Hernandez-Becerril, D.U. (2006). The genus Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyta) from Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan. Botanica Marina 49: 236-258.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Chaetoceros&species=didymus

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Chaetoceros&Species=didymus

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 23 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 15 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:83842

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