Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Phylum Heterokontophyta > Subphylum Bacillariophytina > Class Bacillariophyceae > Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae > Superorder Chaetocerotanae > Order Chaetocerotanae incertae sedis > Family Chaetocerotaceae

Chaetoceros C.G. Ehrenberg, 1844

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chaetoceros abnormis Proschkina-Lavrenko, 1953
Chaetoceros affinis Lauder, 1864
Chaetoceros anastomosans Grunow, 1882
Chaetoceros anglicus Grunow in Van Heurck, 1882
Chaetoceros angularis Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros armatus T.West, 1860
Chaetoceros atlanticus Cleve, 1873
Chaetoceros baculites Meunier, 1910
Chaetoceros balticus Cleve
Chaetoceros borealis Bailey, 1854
Chaetoceros borgei Lemmermann, 1904
Chaetoceros brevis F.Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros castracanei Karsten, 1905
Chaetoceros ceratosporus Ostenfeld, 1910
Chaetoceros cinctus Gran, 1897
Chaetoceros circinalis (Meunier) K.G. Jensen & Moestrup, 1998
Chaetoceros coarctatus Lauder, 1864
Chaetoceros cochleus F.Schütt
Chaetoceros compactus Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros compressus Lauder, 1864
Chaetoceros concavicornis Mangin, 1917
Chaetoceros constrictus Gran, 1897
Chaetoceros contortus Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros convexicornis Mangin, 1919
Chaetoceros convolutus Castracane, 1886
Chaetoceros coronatus Gran, 1897
Chaetoceros costatus Pavillard, 1911
Chaetoceros crinitus F.Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros criophilus sensu Hust. In A. Schmidt, 1921, non Castr., 1886
Chaetoceros criophilus Gran, 1904
Chaetoceros curvisetus Cleve, 1889
Chaetoceros danicus Cleve, 1889
Chaetoceros debilis Cleve, 1894 emend Xu, Y.Li & Lundholm in Xu et al., 2020
Chaetoceros decipiens Cleve, 1873
Chaetoceros densus (Cleve) Cleve, 1899
Chaetoceros dichaeta Ehrenberg, 1844
Chaetoceros didymus Ehrenberg, 1845
Chaetoceros difficilis Cleve, 1900
Chaetoceros distans Cleve, 1873
Chaetoceros diversus Cleve, 1873
Chaetoceros eibenii Grunow, 1882
Chaetoceros externus Gran, 1897
Chaetoceros fallax Prosckina-Lavrenko, 1955
Chaetoceros filiformis Meunier, 1910
Chaetoceros fragilis Meunier, 1910
Chaetoceros furcellatus Yendo, 1911
Chaetoceros galvestonensis Collier & Murphy, 1962
Chaetoceros glaciale A.F.Meunier
Chaetoceros glandazii Mangin, 1910
Chaetoceros gracilis F.Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros granii Cleve, 1900
Chaetoceros grunowii F.Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros holsaticus F.Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros imbricatus Mangin, 1912
Chaetoceros ingolfianus Ostenfeld, 1902
Chaetoceros javanicus Cleve, 1873
Chaetoceros karianus Grunow, 1880
Chaetoceros laciniosus F.Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros lauderi Ralfs, 1864
Chaetoceros leve F.Schütt
Chaetoceros lorenzianus Grunow, 1863
Chaetoceros messanense Castracane, 1875
Chaetoceros muelleri Lemmermann, 1898
Chaetoceros neapolitanus Schröder, 1900
Chaetoceros neogracilis VanLand., 1968
Chaetoceros paulsenii Ostenfeld, 1902
Chaetoceros pelagicus Cleve
Chaetoceros perpusillus Cleve, 1897
Chaetoceros peruvianum Brightwell, 1856
Chaetoceros procerum Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros protuberans Lauder, 1864
Chaetoceros pseudocrinitus Ostenfeld, 1901
Chaetoceros pseudocurvisetus Mangin, 1910
Chaetoceros radians F.Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros radicans F.Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros ralfsii Cleve, 1873
Chaetoceros ralfsii Schütt, 1896
Chaetoceros rostratus Ralfs, 1864
Chaetoceros schuettii Cleve
Chaetoceros scolopendra Cleve, 1896
Chaetoceros seiracanthus Gran, 1897
Chaetoceros septentrionalis Cleve, 1896
Chaetoceros sessilis Grøntved, 1951
Chaetoceros similis Cleve, 1896
Chaetoceros simplex Ostenfeld, 1902
Chaetoceros skeleton F.Schütt, 1895
Chaetoceros socialis H.S.Lauder, 1864
Chaetoceros subsalsus Lemmermann, 1904
Chaetoceros subtilis Cleve, 1896
Chaetoceros tenuissimus Meunier, 1913
Chaetoceros teres Cleve, 1896
Chaetoceros tetrastichon Cleve, 1897
Chaetoceros tortissimus Gran, 1900
Chaetoceros vistulae Apstein, 1909
Chaetoceros weissflogii F.Schütt, 1905
Chaetoceros wighamii Brightwell, 1856
Chaetoceros willei Gran, 1897

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Japanese: キートケロス属

Literature

original description	Ehrenberg, C.G. (1844). Einige vorläufige Resultate seiner Untersuchungen der ihm von der Südpolreise des Capitain Rofs, so wie von den Herren Schayer und Darwin zugekommenen Materialien über das Verhalten des kleinsten lebens in den Oceanen und den gröfsten bisher zugänglichen Tiefen des Weltmeers. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1844: 182-207
basis of record	Round, F.E.; Crawford, R.M.; Mann, D.G. (1990). The diatoms: biology and morphology of the genera. Cambridge University Press: London, UK. ISBN 0-521-363187. 747 pp.
additional source	Fourtanier, E. & Kociolek, J. P. (compilers). (2011). Catalogue of Diatom Names. California Academy of Sciences, On-line Version. Updated 2011-09-19.
additional source	Sar, E.A., Hernández-Becerril, D.U. & Sunesen, I. (2002). A morphological study of Chaetoceros tenuissimus Meunier, a little-known planktonic diatom, with a discussion of the section Simplicia, sugenus Hyalochaete. Diatom Research, 17(2): 327-335
additional source	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings. No. 95: 210 pp.

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Taxonomy

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Citation

Kociolek, J.P.; Blanco, S.; Coste, M.; Ector, L.; Liu, Y.; Karthick, B.; Kulikovskiy, M.; Lundholm, N.; Ludwig, T.; Potapova, M.; Rimet, F.; Sabbe, K.; Sala, S.; Sar, E.; Taylor, J.; Van de Vijver, B.; Wetzel, C.E.; Williams, D.M.; Witkowski, A.; Witkowski, J. (2025). DiatomBase. Chaetoceros C.G. Ehrenberg, 1844. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148985