WoRMS taxon details
Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst, 1931
AphiaID: 156632
AphiaID: 156632
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Hasle, G.R., and E.E. Syvertsen. 1997. Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press, San Diego. 385 p. [details] basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [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: 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: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [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 | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic Europe [details] Baltic sea [details] Bay of Fundy [details] Belgian Coast [details] Belt Sea [details] English Channel [details] FAO fishing area 21 [details] German Bight [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Helgoland [details] North Coast of France [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norway [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Waddeneilanden [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) - Coscinodiscus wailesii PlanktonNet Image Published in AlgaeBase  To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Alien species: Originally, the diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii only occurred in the Pacific and Indian Ocean. It is presumed that the species was introduced into Europe by importing young Japanese oysters, although it's also possible that the introduction took place via ballast water of cargo ships. The diatom is part of the phytoplankton, and can as such be easily distributed along with the prevailing sea currents. The species was first reported in the late 1970's along the Belgian coast, where it's now the entire year round a common planktonic species. [details] 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] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156632 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst, 1931. 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=156632 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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