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Fragilaria radians (Kützing) D.M.Williams & Round, 1987 
AphiaID: 157456

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Fragilariophycidae (Subclass) > Fragilariophycanae (Superorder) > Fragilariales (Order) > Fragilariaceae (Family) > Fragilaria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Fragilaria Lyngbye, 1819
Synonymised
taxa
  Fragilaria capucina var. radians (Kützing) Lange-Bertalot (synonym)
Synedra acus f. radians (Kützing) Hustedt, 1957 (synonym)
Synedra acus radians (Kützing) Skabichevskii, 1960 (synonym)
Synedra acus var. radians (Kützing) Hustedt, 1930 (synonym)
Synedra radians Kützing, 1844 (synonym)
Synedra splendens var. radians (Kützing) O'Meara, 1875 (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]

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

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Bay of Fundy [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
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:157456
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2005-05-23 09:16:32Z  created  Claus, Simon
2011-02-08 13:51:46Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Fragilaria radians (Kützing) D.M.Williams & Round, 1987. 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=157456 on 2013-05-24
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