Placoneis elginensis (Gregory) E.J.Cox

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Bacillariophycidae
Superorder Bacillarianae
Order Cymbellales
Family Cymbellaceae
Genus Placoneis

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Truckee River, Nevada, USA; 1000x, DIC, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection. 29 Sep 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Placoneis elginensis (Gregory) E.J.Cox Truckee River, Nevada, USA; 1000x, DIC, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection

Publication details
Placoneis elginensis (Gregory) E.J.Cox 1988: 155, figs 20-27, 34, 35, 45, 46, 51

Original publication: Cox, E.J. (1988 '1987'). Placoneis Mereschkowsky: the re-evaluation of a diatom genus originally characterized by its chloroplast type. Diatom Research 2: 145-157.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Placoneis is Placoneis gastrum (Ehrenberg) Mereschkovsky.

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

Basionym
Pinnularia elginensis Gregory

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pinnularia elginensis Gregory 1856
Navicula elginensis (W.Gregory) Ralfs 1861
Navicula dicephala var. elginensis (W.Gregory) Cleve 1895
Placoneis dicephala var. elginensis (Gregory) Mereschkowsky 1903

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Navicula anglica Ralfs 1861
Navicula dicephala f. minor Grunow 1880
Navicula placentula var. anglica (Ralfs) Grunow 1880
Navicula tumida var. anglica (Ralfs) Gutwinski 1891
Navicula anglica var. subsalsa f. major (Ralfs) Cleve-Euler 1932
Placoneis anglica (Ralfs) E.J.Cox 2003
Placoneis anglica (Ralfs) R.Lowe 2004

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Pinnularia elginensis Gregory)
Europe: France (Anon. 2012).

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

(as Navicula elginensis (W.Gregory) Ralfs)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012).

North America: United States of America (Patrick & Reimer 1966).

South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Soylu & Gonulol 2006).

Asia: Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

South-east Asia: Singapore (Pham et al. 2011).

Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Bostock & Holland 2010), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

(as Navicula anglica Ralfs)
Europe: Czech Republic (Gross, Oesterhelt, Tischendorf & Lederer 2002 ), France (Méléder et al. 2007 ), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas 1982, Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982).

North America: South Carolina (Plante et al. 2010), United States of America (Patrick & Reimer 1966).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), Queensland (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

(as Navicula dicephala var. elginensis (W.Gregory) Cleve)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).

Australia and New Zealand: Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

(as Placoneis elginensis (Gregory) E.J.Cox)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2012).

North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004).

(as Placoneis anglica (Ralfs) E.J.Cox)
Europe: Poland (Zelazna-Wieczorek 2011).

Source of synonymy
Eberle, M.E.. (2008). Recent Diatoms reported from the Central United States: Register of Taxa and Synonyms. Hays, Kansas, USA: Departemen of Biological Sciences, Fort Hays State University. Latest electronic version: 5 December 2008.

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

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=Placoneis&Species=elginensis

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 30 April 2012 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 666 times since it was created.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Salvador Valenzuela Miranda 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: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:102959