Pinnularia gibba Ehrenberg
Publication details
Pinnularia gibba Ehrenberg 1843: 384(96); pl.1/2, fig.8; pl.2/1, fig.24; pl.3/1, fig.4
Original publication: Ehrenberg, C.G. (1843). Verbreitung und Einfluss des mikroskopischen Lebens in Süd-und Nord-Amerika. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1841: 291-466, pls 1-4.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Pinnularia is Pinnularia viridis (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Navicula gibba (Ehrenberg) Kützing 1844
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Stauroptera gibba Ehrenberg 1843
Stauroneis gibba (Ehrenberg) Kützing 1844
Navicula stauroptera Grunow 1860
Pinnularia stauroptera (Grunow) Rabenhorst 1864
Navicula abaujensis Pantocsek 1889
Schizonema stauropterum (Grunow) Kuntze 1898
General environment
This is a freshwater species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Pinnularia gibba Ehrenberg)
Europe: Britain (Ettl & Gärtner 1995, Poulicková et al. 2007), Poland (Zelazna-Wieczorek 2011), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982).
North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010), New York (Passy 2006), Virginia (Wolowski et al. 2011 
).
South America: Argentina (Rodriguez et al. 2006), Brazil (Eskinazi-Leça et al. 2010).
Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).
Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004).
(as Navicula stauroptera Grunow)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).
(as Pinnularia stauroptera (Grunow) Rabenhorst)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982).
South America: Brazil (Eskinazi-Leça et al. 2010).
Australia and New Zealand: Northern Territory (Day et al. 1995), Queensland (Day et al. 1995).
Nomenclatural notes
Day et al. (1995: 42) record this name with the authorities sensu L. Crosby & E. Wood and note that it may be a synonym of Pinnularia brevicostata f. ventricosa (Hustedt).
Source of synonymy
Krammer, K. (2000). Diatoms of Europe. Diatoms of the European Inland Waters and Comparable Habitats. Volume 1. The genus Pinnularia. pp. 703, 217 Plates.: H. Lange-Bertalot (Ed.). ARG Gantner Verlag K.G.
Key references
Hu, H. & Wei, Y. (2006). The freshwater algae of China. Systematics, taxonomy and ecology. pp. [4 pls of 16 figs], [i-iv], i-xv, 1-1023. China: www.sciencep.com.
Passy, S.I. (2006). Diatom community dynamics in streams of chronic and episodic acidification: the roles of environment and time. Journal of Phycology 42: 312-323.
Poulicková, A., Mayama, S., Chepurnov, V.A. & Mann, D.G. (2007). Heterothallic auxosporulation, incunabula and perizonium in Pinnularia (Bacillariophyceae). European Journal of Phycology 42(4): 367-390.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Pinnularia&species=gibba
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=Pinnularia&Species=gibba
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 08 May 2010 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda
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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:85554
