Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae
Superorder Coscinodiscanae
Order Coscinodiscales
Family Coscinodiscaceae
Genus Coscinodiscus

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Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland; girdle view showing flattened valves.. Robin Raine. © Robin Raine (Robin.Raine@nuigalway.ie).

Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland; girdle view showing flattened valves.

Publication details
Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst 1931: 448

Original publication: Gran, H.H. & Angst, E.C. (1931 '1930'). Plankton diatoms of Puget Sound. Publications of the Puget Sound Biological Station 7: 417-517.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Coscinodiscus is Coscinodiscus argus Ehrenberg.

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

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

General environment
This is a marine species.

Usage notes
Harmful species

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst)
Europe: Germany (Jensen, Moestrup & Schmid 2003, Kühn & Brownlee 2005), Netherlands (Gittenberger et al. 2010 ).

North America: Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary & McLachlan 2004).

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

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

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

Key references
Gittenberger, A., Rensing, M., Stegenga, H. & Hoeksema, B. (2010). Native and non-native species of hard substrata in the Dutch Wadden Sea. Nederlandse faunistische Mededelingen No. 33: 21-75.

Gómez, F. & Souissi, S. (2010). The diatoms Odontella sinensis, Coscinodiscus wailesii and Thalassiosira punctigera in the European Atlantic: recent introductions or overlooked in the past?. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin 19: 1424-1433.

Gómez, F. (2008). Phytoplankton invasions: comments on the validity of categorizing the non-indigenous dinoflagellates and diatoms in European Seas. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56: 620-628.

Hallegraeff, G.M., Anderson, D.M. & Cembella, A.D., Eds (2003). Manual on harmful marine microalgae. Paris: UNESCO.

Hasle, G.R. & Syvertsen, E.E. (1996). Marine diatoms. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 5-385. San Diego: Academic Press.

Hoppenrath, M., Elbrächter, M. & Drebes, G. (2009). Marine phytoplankton Selected microphytoplankton species from the North Sea around Helgoland and Sylt. pp. [1]-264, figs 1-87. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

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

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=Coscinodiscus&Species=wailesii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 23 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 16 August 2010 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2731 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Fernandes, L.F., Zehnder-Alves, K. & Bassfeld, J.C. (2001). The recently established diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii (Coscinodiscales, Bacillariophyta) in Brazilian waters. I: remarks on morphology and distribution. Phycological Research 49: 89-96.
Gómez, F. & Souissi, S. (2010). The diatoms Odontella sinensis, Coscinodiscus wailesii and Thalassiosira punctigera in the European Atlantic: recent introductions or overlooked in the past?. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin 19: 1424-1433.
Jensen, K.G., Moestrup, Ø. & Schmid, A.-M.M. (2003). Ultrastructure of the male gametes from two centric diatoms, Chaetoceros laciniosus and Coscinodiscus wailesii (Bacillariophyceae). Phycologia 42: 98-105.
Kühn, S.F. & Brownlee, C. (2005). Membrane organisation and dynamics in the marine diatom Coscinodiscus wailesii (Bacillariophyceae). Botanica Marina 48: 297-305.
Lee, J.H., Jung, Y.H. & Choi, C.H. (1992). The diatom genus Coscinodiscus Ehrenberg: C. wailesii Gran & Angst. Korean Journal of Phycology 7(1): 55-62, 12 figs, 2 tables.
Nagai, S. & Imai, I. (1998). Enumeration of bacteria in seaweed and sediment from the Seto Inland Sea of Japan that promote sperm formation in Coscinodiscus wailesii (Bacillariophyceae). Phycologia 37: 363-368, 7 figs, 1 table.
Nagai, S., Hori, Y., Manabe, T. & Imai, I. (1995). Restoration of cell size by vegetative cell enlargement in Coscinodiscus wailesii (Bacillariophyceae). Phycologia 34: 533-535, 13 figs.
Rincé, Y. & Paulmier, G. (1986). Données nouvelles sur la distribution de la diatomée marine Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst (Bacillariophyceae). Phycologia 25: 73-79, 6 figs.
Schmid, A.-M.M. & Volcani, B.E. (1983). Wall morphogenesis in Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran and Angst. I. Valve morphology and development of its architecture. Journal of Phycology 19: 387-402, 31 figs, 3 tables.

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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 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:83662