WoRMS taxon details
Coscinodiscus asteromphalus Ehrenberg, 1844
AphiaID: 149274
AphiaID: 149274
| Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Coscinodiscanae (Superorder) > Coscinodiscales (Order) > Coscinodiscaceae (Family) > Coscinodiscus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Coscinodiscus Ehrenberg, 1839 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Coscinodiscus asteromphalus var. conspicua Grunow, 1883 (synonym) Coscinodiscus asteromphalus var. genuina Grunow, 1884 (synonym) Coscinodiscus radiatus var. asteromphalus (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg, 1854 (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: 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: 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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Coscinodiscus asteromphalus var. asteromphalus Ehrenberg, 1844 Variety Coscinodiscus asteromphalus var. hybridus Grun., 1844 Variety Coscinodiscus asteromphalus var. centralis Grunow, 1884 accepted as Coscinodiscus centralis Ehrenberg, 1844 Variety Coscinodiscus asteromphalus var. conspicua Grunow, 1883 accepted as Coscinodiscus asteromphalus Ehrenberg, 1844 Variety Coscinodiscus asteromphalus var. genuina Grunow, 1884 accepted as Coscinodiscus asteromphalus Ehrenberg, 1844 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bay of Fundy [details] FAO fishing area 21 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Nieuwpoort [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Biodiversity Heritage Library (56 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life 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] Spelling: [VLIZ] Coscinodiscus asteromphalus in NWARMS [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149274 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Coscinodiscus asteromphalus Ehrenberg, 1844. 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=149274 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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