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Eucampia zodiacus Ehrenberg, 1839 
AphiaID: 149131

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Biddulphianae (Superorder) > Hemiaulales (Order) > Hemiaulaceae (Family) > Eucampia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Eucampia Ehrenberg, 1839
Synonymised
taxa
  Eucampia britannica W.Smith, 1853 (synonym)
Eucampia nodosa A.Schmidt, 1888 (synonym)
Sources  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: Horner, R.A. 2002. A taxonomic guide to some common marine phytoplankton. Biopress Ltd. Bristol. 195 p.  [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: 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: 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]

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 Forma Eucampia zodiacus f. cylindrocornis Syvertsen
Environment marine
Distribution Bay of Fundy [details]
Blankenberge [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Scotian Shelf [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links PlanktonNet Image
Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: phytosynthetic [details]

Distribution: cosmopolitan except not in polar waters [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. 9)
Meunier (1915, pl. 9)
added on 2008-07-17 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked

Eucampia zodiacus
Eucampia zodiacus
added on 2010-02-10 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
qualitystatus: not checked

Eucampia zoodiacus
Eucampia zoodiacus
added on 2011-03-09 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dalhousie University, Rajashree Gouda ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Eucampia zodiacus
Eucampia zodiacus
added on 2011-05-09 - author: Hobson, Lou ()
qualitystatus: not checked

PlanktonNet Image  
PlanktonNet Image
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149131
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-08-22 13:14:58Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-01-14 09:01:16Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Eucampia zodiacus Ehrenberg, 1839. 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=149131 on 2013-05-21
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