Pleurosigma normanii Ralfs

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

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Publication details
Pleurosigma normanii Ralfs in Pritchard 1861: 919

Original publication: Pritchard, A. (1861). A history of infusoria, including the Desmidiaceae and Diatomaceae, British and foreign. Fourth edition enlarged and revised by J. T. Arlidge, M.B., B.A. Lond.; W. Archer, Esq.; J. Ralfs, M.R.C.S.L. ; W. C. Williamson, Esq., F.R.S., and the author. pp. i-xii, 1- 968, 40 pls. London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Pleurosigma is Pleurosigma angulatum (Queckett) W.Smith.

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

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Scalptrum normanii (Ralfs) Kuntze 1891
Gyrosigma normanii (Ralfs) Mann 1907

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Pleurosigma affine Grunow 1880

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Pleurosigma normanii Ralfs)
Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, Anon 2011).

North America: Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary & McLachlan 2004), United States of America (Patrick & Reimer 1966).

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).

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

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.

Kim, K.Y., Garbary D.J. & McLachlan, J.L. (2004). Phytoplankton dynamics in Pomquet Harbour, Nova Scotia: a lagoon in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Phycologia 43: 311-328.

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

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=Pleurosigma&Species=normanii

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 23 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 24 September 2011 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

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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 23 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:82700