Skeletonemopsis P.A.Sims, 2015

Holotype species: Skeletonema barbadense Greville

Publication details: P.A.Sims, 2015: 50

Currently accepted name for the type species: Skeletonemopsis barbadensis (Greville) P.A.Sims

Original publication and holotype designation: Wiersema, J.H., McNeill, J., Turnland, N.J., Barrie, F.B., Buck, W.R., Demoulin, C., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, (2015). Appendices II - VIII. International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July 2011: . Regnum Vegetabile 157: .

Fossil: This is a genus of fossil species, or a genus with a fossil type species, or a genus the type species of which was originally described as a fossil.

Description: Cells cylindrical, forming chains by means of linking spines. Valve face circular, convex, bordered by a marginal ridge with linking spines. Linking spines mostly partially hollow with bullulae. Areolae radiating from valve centre to valve margin, loculate with external vela and internal foramina. Rimoportulae positioned just above valve margin in a single ring, internal openings small, oval, lying within the marginal ring of foramina; external openings often covered by auricular flaps.

Origin of description: this description is from the original publication; it may have been modified slightly. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2025-05-01 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Sims, P.A. (1994). Skeletonemopsis, a new genus based on the fossil species of the genus Skeletonema Grev. Diatom Research 9(2): 387-410, 54 figs.

Nomenclatural note
Skeletonemopsis P. A. Sims in Regnum Veg. 157: 50. 2015 Type: Skeletonema barbadense Grev. was inadvertently validated in Appendix III of the 2015 Code (Kanchi Gandhi pers. comm.). While "Skeletonematopsis" is orthographically correct, "Skeletonemopsis" was used when the name was validated and must be used in the absence of conservation, - (16 November 2024) - M.D. Guiry

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 01 May 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 09 June 2025