Pinnularia viridis (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg
Publication details
Pinnularia viridis (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg 1843: 305 (17), 385, pl.1/1: fig.7
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
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Pinnularia.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Bacillaria viridis Nitzsch
Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), green (Stearn 1973).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Bacillaria viridis Nitzsch 1817
Frustulia viridis (Nitzsch) Kützing 1833
Navicula viridis (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg 1833
Schizonema viride (Nitzsch) Kuntze 1898
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Navicula viridis (Nitzsch) Kützing
General environment
This is a freshwater species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Navicula viridis (Nitzsch) Kützing)
South-west Asia: Pakistan (Mehwish & Aliya 2005).
(as Pinnularia viridis (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Czech Republic (Gross, Oesterhelt, Tischendorf & Lederer 2002), Poland (Zelazna-Wieczorek 2011), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas 1982, Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982, Aboal & Llimona 1984a, Aboal & Llimona 1984b, Aboal 1989b, Aboal 1989, Aboal, Puig & Prefasi 1998).
North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010), New York (Passy 2006), United States of America (Patrick & Reimer 1966), Virginia (Wolowski et al. 2011 
).
South America: Argentina (Rodriguez et al. 2006), Brazil (Eskinazi-Leça et al. 2010).
Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).
Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), Northern Territory (Day et al. 1995), Queensland (Day et al. 1995), Tasmania (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995, Chiovitti et al 2005, Crawford et al. 2009).
Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004).
Key references
Aboal, M., Alvarez Cobelas, M., Cambra, J. & Ector, L. (2003). Floristic list of non-marine diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) of Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands. Updated taxonomy and bibliography. Diat. Monogr. 4: 1-639.
Chiovitti, A., Harper, R.E., Willis, A., Bacic, A., Mulvaney, P. & Wetherbee, R. (2005). Variations in the substituted 3-linked mannans closely associated with the silicified walls of diatoms . Journal of Phycology 41: 1154-1161.
Crawford, S.A., Chiovitti, A., Pickett-Heaps, J. & Wetherbee, R. (2009). Micromorphogenesis during diatom wall formation produces siliceous nanostructures with different properties. Journal of Phycology 45(6): 1353-1362.
Day, S.A., Wickham, R.P., Entwisle, T.J. & Tyler, P.A. (1995). Bibliographic check-list of non-marine algae in Australia. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 4: i-vii, 1-276.
Ettl, H. & Gärtner, G. (1995). Syllabus der Boden-, Luft- und Flechtenalgen. pp. i-vii, 1-721. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer.
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.
Hustedt, F. (1930). Bacillariophyta (Diatomeae). In: Die Süsswasser - Flora Mitteleuropas. Heft. 10, 2. Aufl. (Pascher, A. Eds), pp. vii + 466, 875 fig. Jena:
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.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Pinnularia&species=viridis
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=viridis
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 30 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry
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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)
Chiovitti, A., Higgins, M.J., Harper, R.E., Wetherbee, R. & Bacic, A. (2003). The complex polysaccharides of the raphid diatom Pinnularia viridis (Bacillariophyceae). Journal of Phycology 39: 543-554.
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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013.
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