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Chaetoceros atlanticus Cleve, 1873 
AphiaID: 149288

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 audax F.Schütt, 1895 (synonym)
Chaetoceros dispar Castracane, 1886 (synonym)
Chaetoceros polygonus F.Schütt, 1895
Sources  basis of record: Louis, A.; Petes, J. (1979). Fluctuations écologiques et algologiques dans les estuaires belges (Oostende, Blankenberge et Nieuwpoort): 1. Données de base [Ecological and algological fluctuations in the Belgian estuaries (Oostende, Blankenberge and Nieuwpoort): 1. Basic data]. Studia Algologica Lovaniensia, 7. Story-Scientia: Louvain, Belgium. XXXVI, 355 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: 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: 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]

additional source: FJ Scott and HJ Marchant (eds), 2005). Antarctic Marine Protists. Australian Biological Resources Study, 563 pp [details]

additional source: 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]

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]

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 Forma Chaetoceros atlanticus f. audax (F.Schütt) H.H.Gran
Variety Chaetoceros atlanticus var. neapolitanus (Schroeder) Hustedt, 1930

Forma Chaetoceros atlanticus f. bulbosus (Ehrenberg) Hargraves, 1968 accepted as Chaetoceros bulbosus (Ehrenberg) Heiden, 1928
Environment marine
Distribution Baie des Chaleurs [details]
Bay of Fundy [details]
Blankenberge [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Scotian Shelf [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
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]

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 atlanticus by some sources. [details]

Spelling: [VLIZ] altanticus in NWARMS [details]
Images 
Meunier (1913, pl. 1)
Meunier (1913, pl. 1)
added on 2008-07-17 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Meunier (1910, pl. 24)
Meunier (1910, pl. 24)
added on 2008-08-04 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149288
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-05 09:02:43Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2008-03-27 13:16:17Z  checked  Scott, Fiona
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Chaetoceros atlanticus Cleve, 1873. 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=149288 on 2013-06-18
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