Chaetoceros decipiens

Li, Yang, Boonprakob, Atchaneey, Gaonkar, Chetan C., Kooistra, Wiebe H. C. F., Lange, Carina B., Hernández-Becerril, David, Chen, Zuoyi, Moestrup, Øjvind & Lundholm, Nina, 2017, Diversity in the Globally Distributed Diatom Genus Chaetoceros (Bacillariophyceae): Three New Species from Warm-Temperate Waters, PLoS ONE (e 0168887) 12 (1), pp. 1-38 : 33

Diversity of Chaetoceros decipiens

The phylogenetic analyses of C. decipiens included a total of 33 strains, isolated from several geographical localities. The strains clustered into four clades, more or less corresponding to the localities of origin. Not all branches were well supported in the trees, however, and inclusion of more strains from other geographical localities and sequencing of more variable genes are therefore needed to evaluate whether the existence of geographically separated clades is real. We did not observe morphological differences among the strains from the different clades, except a tendency for the cold-water strains to have s smaller poroid size than the temperate-warm-water strains.