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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSkeletonema costatum (Greville) Cleve, 1873 
AphiaID: 149074

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChromista (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHarosa (Subkingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOchrophyta (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorKhakista (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBacillariophyceae (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCoscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThalassiosiranae (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThalassiosirales (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSkeletonemaceae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSkeletonema (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSkeletonema Greville, 1865
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelosira costata Greville, 1866 (basionym)
Sources  basis of record Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

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Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Baltic Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPolish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Bay of Fundy
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorBay of Fundy [details]
Belgium
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorOostende [details]
France
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorWimereux [details]
Gulf of Mexico
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorBaie des Chaleurs [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorLebanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Maine [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorIrish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorUnited Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorBelgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth Sea [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSchelde estuary [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorFAO fishing area 21 [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNew Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorScotian Shelf [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSwedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTunisian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPlanktonNet Image 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPublished in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (119 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Dyntaxa 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (231 nucleotides; 98 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Notes 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:87365 [details]

From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDiet phytosynthetic [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDistribution cosmopolitan in coastal regions around World except polar seas. May form extensive blooms in spring [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEcology In the summer of 1973 only <>S. costatum bloomed in a estricted area just north of the mouth of the Rhine, reaching levels of 4 106 cells/l. Spring blooms dominated by this species appeart to be a regular feature of Swedish coastal waters in the Skaggerak with concentrations reaching 53 106 cells/l in March 1981 (Lindahl & Hernoth, 1983).
 [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat pelagic or attached to various marine life [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorImportance most abundant phylum of algae [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMorphology yellow brown in color, not green [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPredators marine microorganisms and animal larvae [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorReproduction general for group: both sexual and asexual [details]
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149074
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-06 10:45:32Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-01-14 10:11:41Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-12-13 10:09:16Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Skeletonema costatum (Greville) Cleve, 1873. 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=149074 on 2014-03-13
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