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Diploneis elliptica (Kützing) Cleve, 1894 
AphiaID: 156558

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Naviculales (Order) > Diploneidaceae (Family) > Diploneis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Diploneis Ehrenberg ex Cleve, 1894
Synonymised
taxa
  Diploneis elliptica var. grandis (Grunow) Cleve, 1894 (synonym)
Navicula elliptica Kützing, 1844 (basionym)
Navicula elliptica var. grandis Grunow, 1882 (synonym)
Schizonema ellipticum (Kützing) Kuntze, 1898 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

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: 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: 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]

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 Variety Diploneis elliptica var. elliptica (Kützing) Cleve, 1894
Variety Diploneis elliptica var. ladogensis Cleve, 1891

Variety Diploneis elliptica var. grandis (Grunow) Cleve, 1894 accepted as Diploneis elliptica (Kützing) Cleve, 1894
Variety Diploneis elliptica var. minutissima (Grunow) F.W.Mills, 1934 accepted as Diploneis puella (Schumann) Cleve, 1894
Variety Diploneis elliptica var. oblongella (Nägeli) F.W.Mills, 1934 accepted as Diploneis oblongella (Nägeli ex Kützing) Cleve-Euler, 1922
Variety Diploneis elliptica var. ostracodarum (Pantocsek) Cleve, 1894 accepted as Diploneis ostracodarum (Pantocsek) A.Jurilj, 1954
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]
Oostende [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 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]
Images 
Meunier (1910, pl. 35)
Meunier (1910, pl. 35)
added on 2008-08-05 - author: A. Meunier
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Meunier (1910, pl. 36)
Meunier (1910, pl. 36)
added on 2008-08-05 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156558
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-19 11:58:45Z  created  Claus, Simon
2005-07-08 06:52:47Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-01-14 09:01:16Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Diploneis elliptica (Kützing) Cleve, 1894. 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=156558 on 2013-05-20
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