Chaetoceros

Category

Centric
Class

Coscinodiscophyceae
Order

Chaetocerotales
Family

Chaetoceraeae

Type Species

Chaetoceros tetrachaeta Ehrenb.

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding, Mark Edlund - Dec 2008
Reviewer

Sam Rushforth - Apr 2010

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Huber-Pestalozzi, G. (1942) Das Phytoplankton des Susswasers. Systematik und Biologie. In Die Binnengewasser, A. Thienemann (ed.) 16: 367-549. E Schweizerbart'sche Verlag. Stuttgart, Germany
Johansen, J.R. and Rushforth, S.R. (1985) A contribution to the taxonomy of Chaetocerus muelleri Lemmerman (Bacillariophycae) and related taxa Phycologia 24: 437-447
Kooistra, W.H.C.F. Kooistra, Kusber, W-H., Hernández-Becerril, D.U., Montresor, M. and Diana Sarno, D. (2022) The type species of the diatom genus Chaetoceros Diatom Research 37(2):81-88.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2022.2066182
Laird, K.R., Fritz, S.C., Grimm, E.C. and Mueller, P.G. (1996) Century-scale paleoclimatic reconstruction from Moon Lake, a closed-basin lake in the northern Great Plains Limnol. Oceanogr. 41: 890-902
Rushforth, S.R. and Johansen, J.R. (1986) The inland Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyceae) species of North America Journal of Phycology 22: 441-448
Sanyal, A., Larsson, J., van Wirdum, F., Andrén, T., Moros, M., Lönn, M., and Andrén, E. (2022) Not dead yet: Diatom resting spores can survive in nature for several millennia. American Journal of Botany 109 (1): 67– 82.

Publication Link: 10.1002/ajb2.1780
Stoermer, E.F. and Julius, M. (2003) Centric diatoms. In: Wehr, J.D. and Sheath, R.G., Freshwater Algae of North America. Academic Press, Elsevier Science, San Diego.
Suto, I. (2006) The explosive diversification of the diatom genus Chaetoceros across the Eocene/Oligocene and Oligocene/Miocene boundaries in the Norwegian Sea Marine Micropaleontology 58: 259-269

Publication Link: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2005.11.004

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From March 2010 to October 2020, this page was primarily directed at non-marine species. The content was expanded to include marine species. - S. Spaulding

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Spaulding, S., Edlund, M. (2008). Chaetoceros. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved May 01, 2026, from https://diatoms.org/genera/chaetoceros?x-craft-preview=409442409a997390693ff24c7010fd6f1c96fb56f8f091fa016a63de9a54aaccecpiqubknd

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Chaetoceros constrictus

Chaetoceros elmorei

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