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DIVISION
CLASS
ORDER
Thalassiosirales
FAMILY
Skeletonemaceae
GENUS
SPECIES
Skeletonema subsalsum, (Cleve-Euler) Bethge, 1928
Synonyms
  • Melosira subsalsa: Cleve-Euler (1912)
Morphological Characteristics

Solitary or joined in long colonies. In girdle view the frustule is cylindrical, while in valve view it appears roughly circular. Between the mantle and the valve surface is a ring of fultoportulae.

Morphological Data
Distinctive morphometric characters
  • Pervalvar Axis: from 7.5 to 17.5 µm
  • Cell Diameter: from 3 to 6 µm
  • Marginal processes in 10µm: from 10 to 10 n°
Distribution

Brackish environments.

Distribution: Europe: Germany (Toepel et al., 2005), Ireland (Sarno et al., 2005), Romania (Caraus, 2002).

Notes

Toxicity:

Not reported.

Resistence Stages:

Not reported.

References

The algae of Romania., Studii si Cercetari, Universitatea Bacau, Biologie 7, Caraus I., 2002, 1-694

Combination of flow cytometry and single cell absorption spectroscopy to study the phytoplankton structure and to calculate the chi a specific absorption coefficients at the taxon level., Journal of Phycology 2005:, Toepel J., Langner U., Wilhelm C., 2005, 1099-1109

Diversity in the genus Skeletonema (Bacillariophyceae): II. An assessment of the taxonomy of S. costatum-like species, with the description of four new species., Journal of Phycology 41:, Sarno D., Kooistra W.H.C.F., Medlin L.K., Percopo I., Zingone A., 2005, 151-176.

Über Skeletonema subsalsum (A. Cleve) Bethge., Bericht der Deutschen Botanischen Gessellschaft 46(5):, Bethge H., 1928, 340-347

SHAPE
Shape Type
complex
Shape Unit
Cell
Cod:
22 - Cylinder + 2 Half Spheres
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