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Aulacoseira ambigua (Grunow) Simonsen, 1979 † 
AphiaID: 148960

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Coscinodiscanae (Superorder) > Aulacoseirales (Order) > Aulacoseiraceae (Family) > Aulacoseira (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Aulacoseira Thwaites, 1848
Synonymised
taxa
  Melosira ambigua (Grunow) O.F.Müller (synonym)
Melosira crenulata var. ambigua Grunow, 1882 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Muylaert, K.; Sabbe, K. (1999). Spring phytoplankton assemblages in and around the maximum turbidity zone of the estuaries of the Elbe (Germany), the Schelde (Belgium/The Netherlands) and the Gironde (France). J. Mar. Syst. 22: 133-149 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Stoermer, E.F., R.G. Kreis, Jr. and N.A. Andersen. 1999. Checklist of diatoms from the Laurentian Great Lakes, II. Journal of Great Lakes Research 25(3): 515-566. [details]

additional source: Hartley, B. (1986). A check-list of the freshwater, brackish and marine diatoms of the British Isles and adjoining coastal waters. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 66: 531-610. [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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

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

from synonym: Louis, A.; Petes, J. (1979). Fluctuations écologiques et algologiques dans les estuaires belges (Oostende, Blankenberge et Nieuwpoort): 1. Données de base [Ecological and algological fluctuations in the Belgian estuaries (Oostende, Blankenberge and Nieuwpoort): 1. Basic data]. Studia Algologica Lovaniensia, 7. Story-Scientia: Louvain, Belgium. XXXVI, 355 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range fossil only
Distribution Bay of Fundy [details]
Blankenberge (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Schelde estuary [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
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]
Image 
Plate III - SEM
Plate III - SEM
added on 2011-03-05 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Hedy Kling ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148960
Taxonomic
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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). Aulacoseira ambigua (Grunow) Simonsen, 1979. 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=148960 on 2013-05-25
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