Tiny Organisms in Aquatic Habitats

Diatoms – SAR-Stramenopiles (Bacillariophyta)

Observations on Chaetoceros densus

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Chaetoceros densus (Cleve) Cleve 1899

Most likely ID: n.a.

Basionym:  Chaetoceros borealis var. densus Cleve 1897

Add’l Synonyms: n.a.

Chaetoceros densus

Sampling date 04/2017. Scale bars indicate 250 µm.

Note that setae also contain protoplasm and even chloroplasts!

Place name: North Sea around Heligoland  
Latitude: 54.186311     Longitude: 7.895034

Microscope Zeiss Universal, camera  Olympus C7070WZ. DOF images.

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