Ditylum brightwellii (T.West) Grunow

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae
Superorder Lithodesmianae
Order Lithodesmiales
Family Lithodesmiaceae
Genus Ditylum

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Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; Waterfront Park, 1000x, PC. 19 Mar 2011. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun.

Kingston, Washington, USA; Ferry terminal outside the breakwater, 400x, DIC. 13 Feb 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Kingston, Washington, USA; Ferry terminal outside the berakwater, 200X, phase contrast. 13 Feb 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Akaroa Harbour, South Island, New Zealand (S 43° 54.155, E 172° 58.754); chain of cells in f/10 culture. Olympus CK-40 inverted, phase, with Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera.. Mark Webber (mwebber108@yahoo.ca). © Mark Webber (mwebber108@yahoo.ca). From: www.biomedia.cellbiology.ubc.ca.

Spring conditions. A usually heaviily silicified species.. © Robin Raine (Robin.Raine@nuigalway.ie).

Ditylum brightwellii (T.West) Grunow Kingston, Washington, USA; Ferry terminal outside the breakwater, 400x, DIC

Publication details
Ditylum brightwellii (T.West) Grunow in Van Heurck 1885: 196, pl. 114: figs 3-9

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 (lectotype) of the genus Ditylum is Ditylum trigonum L.W.Bailey ex L.W.Bailey.

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

Basionym
Triceratium brightwellii T.West

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Triceratium brightwellii T.West 1860

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Ditylum trigonum L.W.Bailey ex L.W.Bailey 1862
Ditylum inaequale J.W.Bailey ex L.W.Bailey 1862

General environment
This is a marine species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Ditylum brightwellii (T.West) Grunow)
Europe: Croatia (Vilicic et al. 2009), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Pérez, Maidana & Comas 2009).

North America: Maine (Koester et al. 2007), Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary & McLachlan 2004).

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

Asia: Taiwan (Anon. 2012).

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

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

Nomenclatural notes
Kim et al (2004: 314) cite this as Ditylum brightwellii (West) Grunow in Van Heurck.

Key references
Hendey, N.I. (1974). A revised check-list of the British marine diatoms. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 54: 277-300.

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.

Jameson, I. & Hallegraeff, G.M. (2010). Planktonic diatoms. In: Algae of Australia. Phytoplankton of temperate waters. (Hallegraeff, G.M., Bolch, C.J.S., Hill, D.R.A., Jameson, I, LeRoi, J.-M., McMinn, A., Murray, S., de Salas, M.F. & Saunders, K. Eds), pp. 16-82. Canberra & Melbourne: ABRS; CSIRO Publishing.

Kaczmarska, I., Beaton, M., Benoit, A.C. & Medlin, L.K. (2006). Molecular phylogeny of selected members of the order Thalassiosirales (Bacillariophyta) and evolution of the fultoportula. Journal of Phycology 42: 121-138.

Tomas, C.R., Eds (1996). Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. pp. 1-858. San Diego: Academic Press Inc.

CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 1022/1 Ditylum brightwellii (T.West) Grunow
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Ditylum&species=brightwellii

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=Ditylum&Species=brightwellii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 23 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 17 August 2010 by M.D. Guiry

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

Brussard, C.P.D., Noordeloos, A.A.M. & Riegman, R. (1997). Autolysis kinetics of the marine diatom Ditylum brightwellii (Bacillariophyceae) under nitrogen and phophorus limitation and starvation. Journal of Phycology 33: 980-987, 8 figs.
Eppley, R.W. & Rogers, J.N. (1970). Inorganic nitrogen assimilation of Ditylum brightwellii, a marine plankton diatom. Journal of Phycology 6: 344-351, 6 figs, 5 tables.
Jenkinson, I.R. (1986). Halosphaera viridis, Ditylum brightwellii and other phytoplankton ion the north-eastern North Atlantic in spring: sinking, rising and relative abundance. Ophelia 26: 233-253.
Koester, J.A., Brawley, S.H., Karp-Boss, L. & Mann, D.G. (2007). Sexual reproduction in the marine centric diatom Ditylum brightwellii (Bacillariophyta). European Journal of Phycology 42(4): 351-366.
Lee, J.H. & Youn, S.J. (2007). Classification into two types based on the morphological characteristics of the marine diatom Ditylum brightwellii (West) Grunow in Yellow Sea, Korea. Algae 22(4): 253-259, 16 figs, 4 tables.
Riaux-Gobin, C. (1996). Research Note : Ditylum brightwellii (Bacillariophyceae) : resting spores at the surface of a shallow sediment (Gulf of Lions, Mediterranean) and revival tests. Phycologia 35: 368-371, 10 figs.
Rijstenbil, J.W. (2001). Effects of periodic low UVA radiation on cell characteristics and oxidative stress in the marine planktonic diatom Ditylum brightwellii. European Journal of Phycology 36: 1-8.
Rynearson, T.A. & Armbrust, E.V. (2004). Genetic differentiation among populations of the planktonic marine diatom Ditylum brightwellii (Bacillariophyceae). Journal of Phycology 40: 34-43.
Saitow, M. & Chihara, M. (1982). Laboratory culture ansd morphology of a marine centric diatom Ditylum brightwellii (1). General morphology and vegetative cell division. Japanese Journal of Phycology 30: 225-233.

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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 May 2013.

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