Amphipleura pellucida (Kützing) Kützing
Publication details
Amphipleura pellucida (Kützing) Kützing 1844: 103; pl. 3: fig. 52; pl. 30: fig. 84
Original publication: Kützing, F.T. (1844). Die Kieselschaligen Bacillarien oder Diatomeen. pp. [i-vii], [1]-152, pls 1-30. Nordhausen: zu finden bei W. Köhne.
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Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Amphipleura.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Frustulia pellucida Kützing
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), pellucid, translucent but not hyaline (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Frustulia pellucida Kützing 1833
Navicula pellucida (Kützing) Ehrenberg 1838
Aulacocystis pellucida (Kützing) Hassall 1845
Carrodoria pellucida (Kützing) Kuntze 1898
Berkeleya pellucida (Kützing) Giffen 1970
General environment
This is a Freshwater species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Navicula pellucida (Kützing) Ehrenberg)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).
(as Amphipleura pellucida (Kützing) Kützing)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2012), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982, Aboal & Llimona 1984a, Aboal & Llimona 1984b, Aboal 1989b, Aboal 1989, Aboal, Puig & Soler 1996, Aboal, Marín & Zafra 2003).
North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010), Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary & McLachlan 2004), United States of America (Patrick & Reimer 1966).
South America: Brazil (Eskinazi-Leça et al. 2010).
South-west Asia: Israel (Tsarenko et al. 2000).
Asia: China (Liu et al. 2012).
Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), Northern Territory (Day et al. 1995).
(as Berkeleya pellucida (Kützing) Giffen)
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Harper et al. 2012).
Key references
Hofmann, G., Werum, M. & Lange-Bertalot, H. (2013). Diatomeen im Süßwasser - Benthos von Mitteleuropa. Bestimmungsflora Kieselalgen für die ökologische Praxis. Über 700 der häufigsten Arten und ihre Ökologie. pp. [1]-908, 133 pls. Königstein: Koeltz Scientific Books.
Hustedt, F. (1930). Bacillariophyta (Diatomeae). In: Die Süsswasser - Flora Mitteleuropas. Heft. 10, 2. Aufl. (Pascher, A. Eds), pp. vii + 466, 875 fig. Jena:
Kim, K.Y., Garbary D.J. & McLachlan, J.L. (2004). Phytoplankton dynamics in Pomquet Harbour, Nova Scotia: a lagoon in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Phycologia 43: 311-328.
Silva, P.C. (1996-to date). Index Nominum Algarum, University Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/INA.html. Updated continuously. ..
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Amphipleura&species=pellucida
SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Amphipleura&Species=pellucida
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 28 February 2013 by M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
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Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:85880
