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Bacillaria paxillifer (O.F.Müller) T.Marsson, 1901 
AphiaID: 149149

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Bacillariales (Order) > Bacillariaceae (Family) > Bacillaria (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Bacillaria paxillifera (O.F.Müller) T.Marsson, 1901
Rank Species
Parent Bacillaria J.F.Gmelin, 1791
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

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

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 Variety Bacillaria paxillifer var. tumidula (Grunow) Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin, 2000
Environment marine
Distribution Bay of Fundy [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Scotian Shelf [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links PlanktonNet Image
Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: phytosynthetic [details]

Distribution: probably cosmopolitan, epipelic in marine and brackish water, sometimes in the plankton [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]

Spelling: Spelled as Bacillaria paxillifera in Hällfors (2004) and Tomas (1997) [details]
Images 
Bacillaria paxillifera (O.F. Müller.) Hendey, 1951
Bacillaria paxillifera (O.F. Müller.) Hendey, 1951
added on 2007-12-12 - author: Philippart, Catharina
qualitystatus: not checked

Meunier (1915, pl. 14)
Meunier (1915, pl. 14)
added on 2008-07-18 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked

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PlanktonNet Image
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149149
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-05-19 10:26:11Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2005-07-07 07:02:57Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-01-13 15:49:28Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-03-09 07:34:57Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2010-12-13 10:09:16Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2011-01-12 08:32:23Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2012-08-08 07:38:48Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Bacillaria paxillifer (O.F.Müller) T.Marsson, 1901. 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=149149 on 2013-05-18
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