Placoneis gastrum (Ehrenberg) Mereschkovsky

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

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Publication details
Placoneis gastrum (Ehrenberg) Mereschkovsky 1903: 13; pl. 1, fig. 17

Original publication: Mereschkowsky, C. (1903). Uber Placoneis, ein neues Diatomeen-Genus. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 15(1): 1-30, pl.1.

Type species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Placoneis.

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

Basionym
Pinnularia gastrum Ehrenberg

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pinnularia gastrum Ehrenberg 1843
Navicula gastrum (Ehrenberg) Kützing 1844
Schizonema gastrum (Ehrenberg) Kuntze 1898

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Navicula gastrum f. maxima Tempère & Peragallo 1909

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Navicula gastrum (Ehrenberg) Kützing)
Europe: France (Anon. 2012), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982).

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

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).

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

(as Placoneis gastrum (Ehrenberg) Mereschkovsky)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2012).

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

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004).

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=gastrum

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=gastrum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 28 April 2012 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 472 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=34258

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 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:108765