Gomphonema splendidum (Greville) Brébisson 1838

Publication Details
Gomphonema splendidum (Greville) Brébisson 1838: 40

Published in: Brébisson, A. de (1838). Études microscopiques. Considérations sur les Diatomées et essai d'une classification des genres et des espèces appartenant à cette famille. Mémoires de la Société Académique, Agricole, Industrielle et d’Instruction de l’Arrondissements de Falaise 1: 27-46, 148-149 (=Corrections et additions au mémoire sur les Diatomées).

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Publication date: 1 January 1838

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Gomphonema is Gomphonema acuminatum Ehrenberg.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Licmophora argentescens var. splendida (Greville) Grunow.

Source of Synonymy
Grunow, A. (1862). Die österreichischen Diatomaceen nebst Anschluss einiger neuen Arten von andern Lokalitäten und einer kritischen Uebersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen und Arten. Erste Folge. Epithemieae, Meridioneae, Diatomeae, Entopyleae, Surirelleae, Amphipleureae. Zweite Folge. Familie Nitschiaea. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 315-472 [Abt 1], 545-588 [Abt. 2], 7 pls.

Basionym
Licmophora splendida Greville

Type Information
Type locality: "on marine algae and Zostera, Appin: Carmichael"; (Greville 1833: 408)

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

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

Last updated: 16 December 2024

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 16 December 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 July 2025

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