WoRMS taxon details
Gyrosigma acuminatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1853
AphiaID: 149035
AphiaID: 149035
| Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Naviculales (Order) > Pleurosigmataceae (Family) > Gyrosigma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Gyrosigma Hassall, 1845 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Frustulia acuminata Kützing, 1833 (basionym) Gyrosigma kuetzingii (Grunow) Cleve, 1894 (synonym) Gyrosigma spenceri (W.Smith) Griffith & Henfrey, 1856 Gyrosigma spencerii (J.W.Bailey ex Quekett) Griffith & Henfrey, 1856 (synonym) Navicula acuminata (Kützing) Kützing, 1844 (synonym) Navicula spencerii J.W.Bailey ex Quekett, 1848 (synonym) Pleurosigma acuminatum (Kützing) W.Smith, 1852 (synonym) Pleurosigma acuminatum (Kützing) Grunow, 1860 (synonym) Pleurosigma gracilentum Rabenhorst, 1861 (synonym) Pleurosigma kuetzingii Grunow, 1860 (synonym) Pleurosigma spenceri var. kuetzingii (Grunow) Grunow, 1880 (synonym) Pleurosigma spencerii (Bailey ex Quekett) W.Smith, 1852 (synonym) Scalptrum spenceri (Quekett) Kuntze, 1891 (synonym) Sigmatella acuminata (Kützing) Brébisson & Godey, 1835 (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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bay of Fundy [details] Blankenberge (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] FAO fishing area 21 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Nieuwpoort (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Schelde estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 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] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149035 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Gyrosigma acuminatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1853. 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=149035 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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