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Navicula contenta Grunow ex Van Heurck

Publication details
Navicula contenta Grunow ex Van Heurck 1885: 109

Original publication: Heurck, H. van (1885). Synopsis des Diatomées de Belgique. Texte. pp. 1-235. Anvers: Martin Brouwers & Co.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Navicula is Navicula tripunctata (O.F.Müller) Bory de Saint-Vincent.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Diadesmis contenta (Grunow ex Van Heurck) D.G.Mann

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Navicula contenta Grunow ex Van Heurck)
Europe: Austria (Ettl & Gärtner 1995), Britain (Ettl & Gärtner 1995), Czech Republic and/or Slovakia (Ettl & Gärtner 1995), Denmark (Ettl & Gärtner 1995), Germany (Ettl & Gärtner 1995), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982, Aboal, Asencio & Prefasi 1994).

Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Ettl & Gärtner 1995).

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

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=Navicula&species=contenta

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=Navicula&Species=contenta

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 15 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 25 January 2009 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 317 times since it was created.

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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 20 June 2013.

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

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