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Thalassiosira rotula Meunier, 1910 
AphiaID: 148942

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Thalassiosiranae (Superorder) > Thalassiosirales (Order) > Thalassiosiraceae (Family) > Thalassiosira (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Thalassiosira Cleve, 1873
Sources  basis of record: Muylaert, K.; Sabbe, K. (1996). The diatom genus Thalassiosira (Bacillariophyta) in the estuaries of the Schelde (Belgium-The Netherlands) and the Elbe (Germany). Bot. Mar. 39: 103-115 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: Martin, J.L., M.M. LeGresley and P.M. Strain. 2001. Phytoplankton monitoring in the Western Isles region of the Bay of Fundy during 1997-98. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2349. iv + 85 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: Krayesky, D. M., E. Meave del Castillo, E. Zamudio, J. N. Norris, and S. Fredericq. 2009. Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 155–186 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M [details]

additional source: Lakkis, S. (2011). Le phytoplancton marin du Liban (Méditerranée orientale): biologie, biodiversité, biogéographie. Aracne: Roma. ISBN 978-88-548-4243-4. 293 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Blankenberge [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Lombardsijde [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Schelde estuary [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links PlanktonNet Image
Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (136 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: phytosynthetic [details]

Distribution: Temperate species, but probably cosmopolitan if regarded, with T. gravida as a single species [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]
Images 
Meunier (1915, pl. 12)
Meunier (1915, pl. 12)
added on 2008-07-18 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Meunier (1910, pl. 29)
Meunier (1910, pl. 29)
added on 2008-08-04 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked

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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148942
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2010-03-17 07:57:32Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Thalassiosira rotula Meunier, 1910. 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=148942 on 2013-05-21
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