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Pinnularia borealis var. scalaris (Ehrenberg) Rabenhorst

Publication details
Pinnularia borealis var. scalaris (Ehrenberg) Rabenhorst 1864: 216

Original publication: Rabenhorst, L. (1864). Flora europaea algarum aquae dulcis et submarinae. Sectio I. Algas diatomaceas complectens, cum figuris generum omnium xylographice impressis. pp. 1-359. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Apud Eduardum Kummerum.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Pinnularia is Pinnularia viridis (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg.

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

Basionym
Stauroptera scalaris Ehrenberg

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), north, northern (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Stauroptera scalaris Ehrenberg 1843
Stauroneis scalaris (Ehrenberg) Kützing 1844
Navicula borealis var. scalaris (Ehrenberg) Grunow 1860
Navicula scalaris (Ehrenberg) O'Meara 1875

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Pinnularia borealis var. scalaris (Ehrenberg) Rabenhorst)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2002).

Source of synonymy
Krammer, K. (2000). Diatoms of Europe. Diatoms of the European Inland Waters and Comparable Habitats. Volume 1. The genus Pinnularia. pp. 703, 217 Plates.: H. Lange-Bertalot (Ed.). ARG Gantner Verlag K.G.

Key references
Hustedt, F. (1930). Bacillariophyta (Diatomeae). In: Die Süsswasser - Flora Mitteleuropas. Heft. 10, 2. Aufl. (Pascher, A. Eds), pp. vii + 466, 875 fig. Jena:

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

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=borealis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry

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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 20 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.

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