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Chaetoceros compressus Lauder, 1864 
AphiaID: 149129

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Chaetocerotanae (Superorder) > Chaetocerotanae incertae sedis (Order) > Chaetocerotaceae (Family) > Chaetoceros (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Chaetoceros Ehrenberg, 1844
Synonymised
taxa
  Chaetoceros contortum F.Schütt, 1895 (synonym)
Chaetoceros contortus Schütt, 1895 (Synonym)
Sources  basis of record: M'harzi, A. (1999). Phytoplankton community structuring in some areas of the North Sea. PhD Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel, Belgium. 221 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Tomas, C.R. (Ed.) (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Martin, J.L., M.M. LeGresley and P.M. Strain. 2001. Phytoplankton monitoring in the Western Isles region of the Bay of Fundy during 1997-98. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2349. iv + 85 p. [details]

additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details]

additional source: Hartley, B. (1986). A check-list of the freshwater, brackish and marine diatoms of the British Isles and adjoining coastal waters. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 66: 531-610. [details]

additional source: Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings No. 95: 210 pp., available online at http://www.helcom.fi/stc/files/Publications/Proceedings/bsep95.pdf [details]

additional source: Lakkis, S. (2011). Le phytoplancton marin du Liban (Méditerranée orientale): biologie, biodiversité, biogéographie. Aracne: Roma. ISBN 978-88-548-4243-4. 293 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

from synonym: De Pauw, N. (1975). Kwalitatieve en kwantitatieve analyse van het micro- en nannoplankton in de Belgische kustwateren ter hoogte van Nieuwpoort. [Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the micro- and nannoplankton in Belgian coastwaters near Nieuwpoort.] Pp 75-203 in Lievens, F. (Ed.): Ekologische en biologische studie van de kustwateren ter hoogte van Nieuwpoort in verband met het lozen van afvalwateren.C.L.O., Gent: Gent, Belgium (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Krayesky, D. M., E. Meave del Castillo, E. Zamudio, J. N. Norris, and S. Fredericq. 2009. Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 155–186 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M [details] [view taxon]

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 Variety Chaetoceros compressus var. hirtisetus J.E.B.Rines & P.E.Hargraves, 1990
Environment marine
Distribution Baie des Chaleurs (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Bay of Fundy (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Blankenberge [details]
FAO fishing area 21 (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
McDougall Sound [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Oostende [details]
Scotian Shelf (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links PlanktonNet Image
Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: phytosynthetic [details]

Distribution: geographic region not obtained; recorded as being found in the Bay of Fundy [details]

Habitat: pelagic or attached to various marine life [details]

identification: Mentioned as C. compressus-costatus by Rousseau (2002). [details]

Importance: most abundant phylum of algae [details]

Morphology: yellow brown in color, not green [details]

Predators: marine microorganisms and animal larvae [details]

Reproduction: general for group: both sexual and asexual [details]

Spelling: Referred to as Chaetoceros compressum by some sources. [details]
Images 
Meunier (1913, pl. 3)
Meunier (1913, pl. 3)
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Meunier (1910, pl. 25)
Meunier (1910, pl. 25)
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Meunier (1910, pl. 26)
Meunier (1910, pl. 26)
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Chaetoceros compressus
Chaetoceros compressus
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Chaetoceros compressus
Chaetoceros compressus
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149129
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-05 10:00:05Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-01-13 15:49:28Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-12-13 11:10:30Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Chaetoceros compressus Lauder, 1864. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149129 on 2013-05-25
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