Vanheurckia rhomboides var. saxonica (Rabenhorst) Holmboe 1899

Current name: Frustulia saxonica Rabenhorst
Prox. Auxospore. Collected by Jeannie Beadle, nr Abisko, Swden - 14 August 2014. C.F.Carter (chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com

Publication Details
Vanheurckia rhomboides var. saxonica (Rabenhorst) Holmboe 1899: 44

Published in: Holmboe, J. (1899). Undersøgelser over Norske ferskvandsdiatoméer. I. Diatoméer fra indsjøer i det sydlige Norge [Studies on Norwegian freshwater diatoms. I. Lake diatoms in southern Norway]. Archiv for mathematik og Naturvidenskab. Christiania 22(1): 1-72, 16 figs.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Vanheurckia is Vanheurckia lewisiana (Greville) Brébisson.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Frustulia saxonica Rabenhorst.

Basionym
Frustulia saxonica Rabenhorst

Type Information
Type locality: Germany: Sächsischen Schweiz; (INA 1996) Notes: Germany, Saxony (Jüttner et al., 2023: 328)

Origin of Species Name
Noun (Latin), a rhomboid.

Created: 13 March 2006 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 10 July 2010

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Taxonomic note
Trinomial also proposed by G.S. West 1913, J. Bot. (London) 37:292, with the same Basionym. (See INA) - (19 November 2023) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 July 2010. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 July 2025