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Aulacoseira distans (Ehrenberg) Simonsen, 1979 
AphiaID: 149096

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
  Gaillionella distans Ehrenberg, 1836 (synonym)
Gaillonella distans Ehrenberg, 1837 (synonym)
Lysigonium distans (Ehrenberg) Trevisan, 1848 (synonym)
Lysigonium distans (Ehrenberg) Kuntze, 1891 (synonym)
Melosira distans (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1844 (synonym)
Melosira polymorpha distans (Ehrenberg) H.Bethge, 1925 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: M'harzi, A. (1999). Phytoplankton community structuring in some areas of the North Sea. PhD Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel, Belgium. 221 pp. (look up in IMIS[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: 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: 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] [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]

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taxa

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 Forma Aulacoseira distans f. lacustris (Grunow) Simonsen
Variety Aulacoseira distans var. africana (O.Müll.) Simonsen, 1979
Variety Aulacoseira distans var. distans (Ehrenberg) Simonsen, 1979
Variety Aulacoseira distans var. humilis (A.Cleve) R.Ross, 1986
Variety Aulacoseira distans var. lirata (Ehrenberg) Simonsen, 1979
Variety Aulacoseira distans var. tenella (Nygaard) R.Ross, 1986

Variety Aulacoseira distans var. alpigena (Grunow) Simonsen, 1979 accepted as Aulacoseira alpigena (Grunow) Krammer, 1991
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]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 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:149096
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-04 12:13:29Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-01-13 15:49:28Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Aulacoseira distans (Ehrenberg) 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=149096 on 2013-05-20
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