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Brachysira vitrea (Grunow) R.Ross, 1986 
AphiaID: 157068

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Naviculales (Order) > Neidiineae (Suborder) > Brachysiraceae (Family) > Brachysira (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Brachysira Kützing, 1836
Synonymised
taxa
  Anomoeoneis variabilis (R.Ross) Reimer, 1961
Anomoeoneis vitrea (Grunow) R.Ross, 1966
Gomphonema vitreum Grunow, 1878 (basionym)
Navicula exilis Grunow, 1880
Navicula variabilis R.Ross, 1947
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Rawlence, D.L. 1987. A guide to common phytoplankton of the St. Croix Estuary, New Brunswick. The New Brunswick Museum Publications in Natural Science No. 6. 60 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: 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]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

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]
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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:157068
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-23 07:30:30Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2005-07-07 07:02:57Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-03-29 10:32:01Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Brachysira vitrea (Grunow) R.Ross, 1986. 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=157068 on 2013-05-25
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