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Nitzschia longissima (Brébisson) Ralfs, 1861 
AphiaID: 149150

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Bacillariales (Order) > Bacillariaceae (Family) > Nitzschia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Nitzschia Hassall, 1845
Synonymised
taxa
  Ceratoneis longissima Brébisson, 1849 (Basionym)
Nitzschia birostrata W.Smith, 1853 (synonym)
Nitzschiella longissima (Brébisson) Rabenhorst (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: 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: 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: 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: FJ Scott and HJ Marchant (eds), 2005). Antarctic Marine Protists. Australian Biological Resources Study, 563 pp [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]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

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Variety Nitzschia longissima var. closterium (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck, 1885 accepted as Nitzschia closterium (Ehrenberg) W.Smith, 1853 accepted as Cylindrotheca closterium (Ehrenberg) Reimann & J.C.Lewin, 1964 accepted as Ceratoneis closterium Ehrenberg, 1839
Environment marine
Distribution Bay of Fundy [details]
Blankenberge [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
McDougall Sound [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Ramisi [details]
Scotian Shelf [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (69 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 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]
Images 
Cylindrotheca closterium
Cylindrotheca closterium
added on 2011-03-09 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dalhousie University, Rajashree Gouda ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Nitzschia longissima
Nitzschia longissima
added on 2011-03-09 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dalhousie University, Rajashree Gouda ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149150
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-15 06:59:14Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2008-03-27 13:16:17Z  checked  Scott, Fiona
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Nitzschia longissima (Brébisson) Ralfs, 1861. 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=149150 on 2013-05-26
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