Melosira arctica Dickie

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae
Superorder Coscinodiscanae
Order Melosirales
Family Melosiraceae
Genus Melosira

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Publication details
Melosira arctica Dickie 1852

Original publication: Dickie, G. (1852). Notes on the algae. - I. In: Journal of a Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits in the Years 1850-51, Vol. II, Appendix. (Sutherland, P.C. Eds), pp. i-cxci. London:

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Melosira is Melosira nummuloides C.Agardh.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), of or pertaining to the Arctic (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Gaillonella arctica (Dickie) Ehrenberg 1853

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Melosira hyperborea Schütt

Description
Emended by Kaczmarska & R. Jahn (2006: 157).

Type information
Type locality: Tiefgrund, Melville Bay 74º 40' N, off the Devils Thumb. (Kaczmarksa & Jahn 2006: 153). Lectotype: 11 July 1850 (Penny's Expedition); Seabed. BM (Kaczmarksa & Jahn 2006: 153). Notes: Lectotype, as designated by Syverstsen and Hasle (1988), is their SEM pictures 4 and 6 from the original material, obtained from the Natural History Museum (BM).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Melosira arctica Dickie)
Arctic: Canada (Arctic) (Kaczmarksa & Jahn 2006).

Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Turkey (Europe) (Ersanli & Gönülol 2006).

North America: Alaska (Kaczmarksa & Jahn 2006).

Nomenclatural notes
Fide AlgaTerra (8 ix 2006). - (8 Sep 2006) - Wendy Guiry

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.

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.

Kaczmarska, I. & Jahn, R. (2006). Taxonomic appraisal of Melosira arctica Dickie and description of a new variety (Bacillariophyta). Botanica Marina 49: 151-164.

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

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=Melosira&Species=arctica

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 08 September 2006 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 845 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.)

Kaczmarska, I. & Jahn, R. (2006). Taxonomic appraisal of Melosira arctica Dickie and description of a new variety (Bacillariophyta). Botanica Marina 49: 151-164.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=33017

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:87602