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Asterionella japonica Cleve, 1882 
AphiaID: 149220

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Fragilariophycidae (Subclass) > Fragilariophycanae (Superorder) > Fragilariales (Order) > Fragilariaceae (Family) > Asterionella (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Asterionellopsis glacialis (Castracane) Round, 1990
Rank Species
Parent Asterionella Hassall, 1850
Sources  basis of record: 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: 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: 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: 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: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS[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: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

source of synonymy: 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]

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 Forma Asterionella japonica f. spiroides I.A.Kiselev
Environment marine
Distribution Black Sea [details]
Blankenberge [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Lombardsijde [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications)
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]
Image 
Meunier (1915, pl. 14)
Meunier (1915, pl. 14)
added on 2008-07-18 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149220
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-06-30 08:01:17Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2005-07-07 07:02:57Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-03-08 13:10:20Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
2012-10-23 09:43:47Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Asterionella japonica Cleve, 1882. 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=149220 on 2013-05-20
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