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Rhizosolenia setigera Brightwell

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae
Superorder Rhizosolenianae
Order Rhizosoleniales
Family Rhizosoleniaceae
Genus Rhizosolenia

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Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; Port Madison, 200x, DIC. 04 Apr 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Kingston, Washington, USA; Ferry terminal outside the breakwater, 200x, DIC. 13 Feb 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Kingston, Washington, USA; Ferry terminal outside the breakwater, 200x, phase contrast. 13 Feb 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Rhizosolenia setigera Brightwell Kingston, Washington, USA; Ferry terminal outside the breakwater, 200x, DIC

Publication details
Rhizosolenia setigera Brightwell 1858: 95, pl. 5: fig. 7

Original publication: Brightwell, T. (1858). Remarks on the genus Rhizosolenia of Ehrenberg. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, London 6: 93-95.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Rhizosolenia is Rhizosolenia styliformis T.Brightwell.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), bearing bristles.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Rhizosolenia japonica Castracane 1886
Rhizosolenia hensenii Schütt 1900

General environment
This is a marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Rhizosolenia setigera Brightwell)
Europe: Netherlands (Dijkman & Kromkamp 2007).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, Anon 2011).

North America: Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary & McLachlan 2004).

South America: Argentina (Sunesen & Sar 2007), Brazil (Eskinazi-Leça et al. 2010).

Asia: Korea (Lee 2012), Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), New Zealand (Harper et al. 2012).

Key references
Bérard-Therriault, L., Poulin, M. & Bossé, L. (1999). Guide d'identification du phytoplancton marin de l'estuaire et du Golfe du Saint-Laurent incluant également certains protozoaires. Publication Spéciale Canadienne des Sciences Halieutiques et Aquatiques 128: 1-387.

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.

Hasle, G.R. & Syvertsen, E.E. (1996). Marine diatoms. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 5-385. San Diego: Academic Press.

Jameson, I. & Hallegraeff, G.M. (2010). Planktonic diatoms. In: Algae of Australia. Phytoplankton of temperate waters. (Hallegraeff, G.M., Bolch, C.J.S., Hill, D.R.A., Jameson, I, LeRoi, J.-M., McMinn, A., Murray, S., de Salas, M.F. & Saunders, K. Eds), pp. 16-82. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS; CSIRO Publishing.

Lee, J.H. (2012). Algal flora of Korea. Volume 3, Number 6. Chrysophyta: Bacillariophyceae: Centrales: Thalassiosiraceae, Rhizosoleniaceae. Marine diatoms II. pp. [1-6], 1-110, figs 1-70. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

Sunesen, I. & Sar, E. A. (2007). Marine diatoms from Buenos Aires coastal waters (Argentina). IV. Rhizosolenia s. str., Neocalyptrella, Pseudosolenia, Proboscia. Phycologia 46(6): 628-643.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Rhizosolenia&species=setigera

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=Rhizosolenia&Species=setigera

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 15 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 3116 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Van de Meene, A.M.L. & Pickett-Heaps, J.D. (2004). Valve morphogenesis in the centric diatom Rhizosolenia setigera (Bacillariophyceae, Centrales) and its taxonomic implications. European Journal of Phycology 39: 93-104.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:85504

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