WoRMS taxon details
Epithemia musculus Kützing, 1844
AphiaID: 156588
AphiaID: 156588
| Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Rhopalodiales (Order) > Rhopalodiaceae (Family) > Epithemia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (Basionym) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Rhopalodia musculus (Kützing) Otto Müller, 1900 | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Epithemia Kützing, 1844 | |||||||||||||
| 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: 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] basis of record: 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: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications) To PESI | |||||||||||||
| 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:156588 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Epithemia musculus Kützing, 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=156588 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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