Navicula viridula (Kützing) Ehrenberg

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Ochrophyta
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Bacillariophycidae
Superorder Bacillarianae
Order Naviculales
Family Naviculaceae
Genus Navicula

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Publication details
Navicula viridula (Kützing) Ehrenberg 1838: 183

Original publication: Ehrenberg, C.G. (1838). Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen: ein Blick in das tiefere organische Leben der Natur. pp. i-xviii, [1-4], 1-547, [1]. Leipzig: Verlag von Leopold Voss.
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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 of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Frustulia viridula Kützing

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Frustulia viridula Kützing 1833
Pinnularia viridula (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg 1843
Navicula viridula (Kützing) Kützing 1844
Pinnularia viridula (Kützing) Rabenhorst 1853
Schizonema viridulum (Kützing) Kuntze 1898

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Pinnularia silesiaca Bleisch 1862
Pinnularia radiosa var. silesiaca (Bleisch) Rabenhorst 1864
Navicula silesiaca (Bleisch) H.L.Smith 1876
Navicula viridula var. silesiaca (Bleisch) De Toni 1891

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Frustulia viridula Kützing)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2002).

North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).

(as Navicula viridula (Kützing) Ehrenberg)
Europe: Poland (Zelazna-Wieczorek 2011), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982, Pérez, Maidana & Comas 2009), Sweden (Van de Vijver, Jarlman & Lange-Bertalot 2010).

Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Ettl & Gärtner 1995).

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

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004).

(as Navicula viridula (Kützing) Kützing)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2012), Spain (Varela 1982).

North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010), United States of America (Patrick & Reimer 1966).

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

South-west Asia: Iran (Jamaloo et al.. 2006), Pakistan (Leghari et al. 2005).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).

Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Bostock & Holland 2010).

(as Navicula viridula var. silesiaca (Bleisch) De Toni)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).

Source of synonymy
Lange-Bertalot, H. (2001). Navicula sensu stricto. 10 Genera separated from Navicula sensu lato. Frustulia. Diatoms of Europe: diatoms of the European inland waters and comparable habitats. Vol. 2 pp. 1-526.: A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. K.G..

Key references
Day, S.A., Wickham, R.P., Entwisle, T.J. & Tyler, P.A. (1995). Bibliographic check-list of non-marine algae in Australia. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 4: i-vii, 1-276.

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

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=viridula

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 23 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 02 June 2010 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

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

Lange-Bertalot, H. (1980). Zur taxonomische Revision einiger ökologisch wichtiger "Naviculae lineolatae" Cleve. Die Formenkreise um Navicula lanceolata, N. viridula, N. cari. Cryptogamie: Algologie 1(1): 29-50.