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Rhopalodia gibba (Ehrenberg) Otto Müller, 1895 
AphiaID: 149566

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Rhopalodiales (Order) > Rhopalodiaceae (Family) > Rhopalodia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Rhopalodia Otto Müller, 1895
Synonymised
taxa
  Cystopleura gibba (Ehrenberg) Kuntze, 1891 (synonym)
Epithemia gibba (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1844 (Synonym)
Epithemia ventricosa var. gibba (Ehrenberg) J.Schumann, 1869 (synonym)
Eunotia gibba (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg, 1843 (synonym)
Frustulia gibba (Ehrenberg) Jenner, 1845 (synonym)
Navicula gibba Ehrenberg, 1832 (Basionym)
Navicula gibba Ehrenberg, 1830 (synonym)
Pinnularia gibba (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg, 1843 (synonym)
Schizonema gibbum (Ehrenberg) Kuntze, 1898 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Louis, A.; Petes, J. (1979). Fluctuations écologiques et algologiques dans les estuaires belges (Oostende, Blankenberge et Nieuwpoort): 1. Données de base [Ecological and algological fluctuations in the Belgian estuaries (Oostende, Blankenberge and Nieuwpoort): 1. Basic data]. Studia Algologica Lovaniensia, 7. Story-Scientia: Louvain, Belgium. XXXVI, 355 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: 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: 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: 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]

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taxa

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 Variety Rhopalodia gibba var. gibba
Variety Rhopalodia gibba var. parallela (Grunow) H.Peragallo & M.Peragallo, 1900
Variety Rhopalodia gibba var. ventricosa (Kützing) H.Peragallo & M.Peragallo, 1900

Variety Rhopalodia gibba var. parallela (Grunow) Holmboe, 1899 accepted as Rhopalodia gibba var. parallela (Grunow) H.Peragallo & M.Peragallo, 1900
Variety Rhopalodia gibba var. ventricosa (Kützing) Mayer, 1913 accepted as Rhopalodia gibba var. ventricosa (Kützing) H.Peragallo & M.Peragallo, 1900
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Bay of Fundy [details]
Blankenberge [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 (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (127 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 5 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]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149566
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2005-07-18 10:19:07Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-01-14 10:11:41Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Rhopalodia gibba (Ehrenberg) Otto Müller, 1895. 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=149566 on 2013-05-26
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