Caloneis westii (W.Smith) Hendey

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Bacillariophycidae
Superorder Bacillarianae
Order Naviculales
Family Naviculaceae
Genus Caloneis

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630x _Dim. 23 x 120 µm. 29 Oct 2012. Robert Lavigne. © Robert Lavigne (MicroscopyView.com).

Caloneis westii (W.Smith) Hendey 630x _Dim. 23 x 120 µm

Publication details
Caloneis westii (W.Smith) Hendey 1964: 230

Original publication: Hendey, N.I. (1964). An introductory account of the smaller algae of British coastal waters. Part V: Bacillariophyceae (diatoms). Vol. Ser. IV (part 5) pp. xxii + 317. Gt. Britain: Minist. Agric. Fish. Food, Fish Invest..

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Caloneis is Caloneis amphisbaena (Bory de Saint Vincent) Cleve.

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

Basionym
Navicula westii W.Smith

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Navicula westii W.Smith 1853
Scoliopleura westii (W.Smith) Grunow 1860
Navicula tumida var. westii (W.Smith) Cleve-Euler 1953

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Navicula formosa Gregory 1856
Caloneis formosa (Gregory) Cleve 1894
Schizonema formosum (Gregory) Kuntze 1898

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Caloneis formosa (Gregory) Cleve)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012).

(as Caloneis westii (W.Smith) Hendey)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2012), Spain (Varela 1982).

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

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Harper et al. 2012).

Source of synonymy
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=Caloneis&species=westii

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=Caloneis&Species=westii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 29 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 708 times since it was created.

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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 24 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:85104