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Nitzschia scalaris (Ehrenberg) W.Smith, 1853 
AphiaID: 156544

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 unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Tryblionella scalaris (Ehrenberg) P.Siver & P.B.Hamilton, 2005
Rank Species
Parent Nitzschia Hassall, 1845
Sources  basis of record: 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]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Bay of Fundy [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 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]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156544
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-19 11:58:45Z  created  Claus, Simon
2005-07-15 06:59:14Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2011-02-09 08:22:37Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
2012-10-23 09:10:43Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Nitzschia scalaris (Ehrenberg) W.Smith, 1853. 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=156544 on 2013-05-19
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