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Diatoma tenue var. elongatus Lyngbye, 1819 
AphiaID: 160093

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Fragilariophycidae (Subclass) > Fragilariophycanae (Superorder) > Fragilariales (Order) > Fragilariaceae (Family) > Diatoma (Genus) > Diatoma tenue (Species)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Variety
Parent Diatoma tenue C. Agardh, 1812
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: 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: 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]

Distribution Bay of Fundy [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Link 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:160093
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-30 17:18:14Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2005-07-12 07:24:36Z  changed  Espinel, Nadjejda
2010-03-29 10:32:01Z  changed  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Diatoma tenue var. elongatus Lyngbye, 1819. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160093 on 2013-05-25
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