DiatomBase name details
Cymbella helvetica Kützing, 1844
163973 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:163973)
uncertain > unassessed
Species
Cocconema helvetica (Kützing) Schmidt, 1881 · uncertain > unassessed
Cocconema helveticum (Kützing) Cleve & Grunow, 1880 · uncertain > unassessed
Cymbella gastroides var. helvetica (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1864 · uncertain > unassessed
Cymbella rigida Frenguelli, 1942 · uncertain > unassessed
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. helvetica Kützing, 1844
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. angustior Gallik, 1926 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. cistulacea Gallik, 1926 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. excisa Cleve-Euler, 1955 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. major (Meister) Cleve-Euler, 1955 accepted as Cymbella helvetica var. major Meister, 1912 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. minor Cleve-Euler, 1955 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. ornata Mayer, 1931 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. silesiaca Rabenhorst, 1857 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. typica Cleve-Euler, 1955 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. typica Cleve-Euler, 1955 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. ventralis Cleve-Euler, 1955 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Forma Cymbella helvetica f. ventricosa Gallik, 1926 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. abbreviata Grunow, 1882-1885 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. africana Fritsch & Rich, 1924 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. balatonis (Grunow) Cleve, 1894 accepted as Cymbella balatonis Grunow, 1875 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. beta W. Smith, 1856 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. compacta (Østrup) Hustedt, 1955 accepted as Cymbella compacta Østrup, 1910 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. curta Cleve, 1894 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. elongata Pantocsek, 1902 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. encyonemoides Gallik, 1927 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. excisa Prudent, 1909 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. fossilis Pantocsek, 1892 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. genuina Mayer, 1929 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. gracilis Meist., 1912 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. hungarica (Pantocsek) F.W. Mills, 1934 accepted as Cymbella cistula var. hungarica Pantocsek, 1892 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. incisa Prudent, 1906 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. intermedia Gallik, 1926 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. major Meister, 1912 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. maxima Prudent, 1907 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. obtusa Grunow in Van Heurck, 1880-1885 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. planiventris Gallik, 1926 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. punctata Hustedt, 1922 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. rariuspunctata Gallik, 1926 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. scotica (A.Schmidt) Frenguelli (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. scotica Grunow in Van Heurck, 1880-1885 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. signata M. Peragallo in Héribaud, 1920 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. undulata Prudent, 1905 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Variety Cymbella helvetica var. vaszaryi (Pantocsek) Cleve-Euler, 1955 accepted as Cymbella vaszaryi Pantocsek, 1902 (uncertain > unassessed)
recent only
Kützing, F.T. (1844). Die Kieselschaligen. Bacillarien oder Diatomeen. <em>Nordhausen.</em> 152 pp., 30 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.64360
page(s): p. 79; pl. 6, fig. 13 [details]
page(s): p. 79; pl. 6, fig. 13 [details]
Kociolek, J.P.; Blanco, S.; Coste, M.; Ector, L.; Liu, Y.; Karthick, B.; Kulikovskiy, M.; Lundholm, N.; Ludwig, T.; Potapova, M.; Rimet, F.; Sabbe, K.; Sala, S.; Sar, E.; Taylor, J.; Van de Vijver, B.; Wetzel, C.E.; Williams, D.M.; Witkowski, A.; Witkowski, J. (2025). DiatomBase. Cymbella helvetica Kützing, 1844. Accessed at: https://diatombase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=163973 on 2025-07-11
original description
Kützing, F.T. (1844). Die Kieselschaligen. Bacillarien oder Diatomeen. <em>Nordhausen.</em> 152 pp., 30 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.64360
page(s): p. 79; pl. 6, fig. 13 [details]
original description (of Cymbella rigida Frenguelli, 1942) Frenguelli, J. (1942). XVII contribución al conocimiento de las diatomeas argentinas. Diatomeas del Neuquén (Patagonia). <em>Revista del Museo de la Plata, Nueva Serie, Sección Botánica 5.</em> 20: 73-219, 12 pls.
page(s): p. 160; pl. 7, fig. 25-26 [details] Available for editors
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context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
basis of record Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). <em>Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings.</em> No. 95: 210 pp., available online at http://helcom.fi/Lists/Publications/BSEP95.pdf [details] Available for editors
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additional source Fourtanier, E. & Kociolek, J. P. (compilers). (2011). Catalogue of Diatom Names. California Academy of Sciences, On-line Version. Updated 2011-09-19., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/diatoms/names/index.asp [details]
additional source Hartley, B., Ross, R. & Williams, D.M. (1986). A check-list of the freshwater, brackish and marine diatoms of the British Isles and adjoining coastal waters. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 66(3): 531-610. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 79; pl. 6, fig. 13 [details]
original description (of Cymbella rigida Frenguelli, 1942) Frenguelli, J. (1942). XVII contribución al conocimiento de las diatomeas argentinas. Diatomeas del Neuquén (Patagonia). <em>Revista del Museo de la Plata, Nueva Serie, Sección Botánica 5.</em> 20: 73-219, 12 pls.
page(s): p. 160; pl. 7, fig. 25-26 [details] Available for editors

context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
basis of record Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). <em>Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings.</em> No. 95: 210 pp., available online at http://helcom.fi/Lists/Publications/BSEP95.pdf [details] Available for editors

additional source Fourtanier, E. & Kociolek, J. P. (compilers). (2011). Catalogue of Diatom Names. California Academy of Sciences, On-line Version. Updated 2011-09-19., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/diatoms/names/index.asp [details]
additional source Hartley, B., Ross, R. & Williams, D.M. (1986). A check-list of the freshwater, brackish and marine diatoms of the British Isles and adjoining coastal waters. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 66(3): 531-610. [details] Available for editors





Paratype (of Cymbella rigida Frenguelli, 1942) MLP Colección de Diatomeas Argentinas J. Frenguelli, Serie 368, geounit Neuquén [details]
Syntype (of Cymbella rigida Frenguelli, 1942) MLP Colección de Diatomeas Argentinas J. Frenguelli, Serie 373, geounit Neuquén [details]
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (70 publications)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cymbella rigida Frenguelli, 1942)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cocconema helvetica (Kützing) Schmidt, 1881)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cocconema helveticum (Kützing) Cleve & Grunow, 1880)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cocconema helveticum (Kützing) Cleve & Grunow, 1880)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cymbella gastroides var. helvetica (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1864)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cymbella helvetica)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (70 publications)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cymbella rigida Frenguelli, 1942)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cocconema helvetica (Kützing) Schmidt, 1881)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cocconema helveticum (Kützing) Cleve & Grunow, 1880)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cocconema helveticum (Kützing) Cleve & Grunow, 1880)
To Catalogue of Diatom Names (CAS) (from synonym Cymbella gastroides var. helvetica (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1864)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cymbella helvetica)
To PESI
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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