Actinocyclus normanii (Gregory) Hustedt

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae
Superorder Coscinodiscanae
Order Coscinodiscales
Family Hemidiscaceae
Genus Actinocyclus

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Publication details
Actinocyclus normanii (Gregory) Hustedt 1957: 218

Original publication: Hustedt, F. (1957). Die Diatomeenflora des Fluss-systems der Weser im Gebiet der Hansestadt Bremen . Abhandlungen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 34(3): 181-440, 1 pl.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Actinocyclus is Actinocyclus octonarius Ehrenberg.

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

Basionym
Coscinodiscus normanii Gregory ex Greville

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Coscinodiscus normanii Gregory ex Greville 1859

General environment
This is a Marine/Freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Actinocyclus normanii (Gregory) Hustedt)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Netherlands (Dijkman & Kromkamp 2007), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Pérez, Maidana & Comas 2009).

South America: Brazil (Eskinazi-Leça et al. 2010).

Asia: Korea (Joh 2010).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Harper et al. 2012), Queensland (Bostock & Holland 2010).

Key references
Dijkman, N.A. & Kromkamp, J.C. (2007). Photosynthetic characteristics of the phytoplankton in the Scheldt estuary: community and single-cell fluorescence measurements. European Journal of Phycology 41: 425-434.

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

Hendey, N.I. (1974). A revised check-list of the British marine diatoms. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 54: 277-300.

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

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=Actinocyclus&Species=normanii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 18 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 974 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.)

Belcher, J.H. & Swale, E.M.F. (1979). English freshwater records of Actinocyclus normanii (Greg.) Hustedt (Bacillariophyceae). British Phycological Journal 14: 225-229, 5 figs, 1 table.
Hasle, G.R. (1977). Morphology and taxonomy of Actinocyclus normanii f. subsalsa (Bacillariophyceae). Phycologia 16: 321-328, 23 figs.
Liukkonen, M., Kairesalo, T. & Haworth, E.Y. (1997). Changes in the diatom community, including the appearance of Actinocyclus normanii f. subsalsa, during the biomanipulation of Lake Vesijärvi, Finland. European Journal of Phycology 32: 353-361.

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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 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:85297