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Coscinodiscus eccentricus Ehrenberg, 1840 † 
AphiaID: 148920

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Coscinodiscanae (Superorder) > Coscinodiscales (Order) > Coscinodiscaceae (Family) > Coscinodiscus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (basionym)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Thalassiosira eccentrica (Ehrenberg) Cleve, 1903
Rank Species
Parent Coscinodiscus Ehrenberg, 1839
Sources  basis of record: Muylaert, K.; Sabbe, K. (1996). Cyclotella scaldensis spec. nov. (Bacillariophyceae), a new estuarine diatom. Nova Hedwigia 63(3-4), pp 335-345. (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: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Rawlence, D.L. 1987. A guide to common phytoplankton of the St. Croix Estuary, New Brunswick. The New Brunswick Museum Publications in Natural Science No. 6. 60 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: 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: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

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 Variety Coscinodiscus eccentricus var. decipiens Grunow, 1878 †

Variety Coscinodiscus eccentricus var. fasciculata Hustedt, 1928 accepted as Thalassiosira eccentrica (Ehrenberg) Cleve, 1903
Environment marine
Fossil range fossil only
Distribution Blankenberge [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (43 publications)
To PESI
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]

SpellingC. excentricus according to De Pauw (1975). [details]

Spelling: [VLIZ] Coscinodiscus excentricus in NWARMS and in Müller (2004) [details]

Spelling: Also spelled as Coscinodiscus excentricus [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148920
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-06 10:45:32Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-03-19 08:06:14Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Coscinodiscus eccentricus Ehrenberg, 1840. 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=148920 on 2013-05-22
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