Psammothidium didymum (Hustedt) Bukhtiyarova & Round 1996

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Bacillariophyta
Subphylum Bacillariophytina
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Bacillariophycidae
Order Cocconeidales
Family Achnanthidiaceae
Genus Psammothidium

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PROX Collected by Gareth Farr, Black Mountains, South Wales, UK.. 19 Jan 2015. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com.

Achnanthes didyma Hustedt PROX Collected by Gareth Farr, Black Mountains, South Wales, UK.
© C.F.Carter (chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com

Publication details
Psammothidium didymum (Hustedt) Bukhtiyarova & Round 1996: 19, figs 68-69

Published in: Bukhtiyarova, L. & Round, F.E. (1996). Revision of the genus Achnanthes sensu lato section Marginulatae Bukh. sect. nov. of Achnanthidium Kütz. Diatom Research 11(1): 1-30.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Psammothidium is Psammothidium marginulatum (Grunow) Bukhtiyarova & Round.

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

Basionym
Achnanthes didyma Hustedt

Type information
Type locality: Finland: Wuokatti; Switzerland: Schwarzsee and K;. Flüelasee near Davos (Index Nominum Algarum).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Achnanthes didyma Hustedt 1933

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Achnanthes didyma Hustedt)
Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Foged 1974).

Europe: Britain (Hartley 1986), Germany (Ludwig & Schnittler 1996, Rumrich, Lange-Bertalot & Rumrich 2000, Mauch & Schmedtje 2003), Ireland (Foged 1977, Wolnik & Carter 2014).

North America: Alaska (Foged 1981), Laurentian Great Lakes (Stoermer, Kreis & Andresen 1999), United States of America (Patrick & Reimer 1966, Kociolek 2005).

Australia and New Zealand: Victoria (Day & al. 1995).

(as Psammothidium didymum (Hustedt) Bukhtiyarova & Round)
Europe: Britain (Whitton & al. 2003), Bulgaria (Stoyneva-Gärtner & al. 2015), Germany (Hofmann & al. 2018), Ireland (Wolnik & Carter 2014), Scandinavia (Karlason & al. 2018).

North America: Laurentian Great Lakes (Stoermer, Kreis & Andresen 1999, Reavie 2020), NW USA (Bahls 2009), United States of America (Kociolek 2005).

Asia: Mongolia (Dorofeyuk & Kulikovskiy 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: Tasmania (John 2018).

Key references
John, J. (2018). Diatoms from Tasmania: taxonomy and biogeography. The diatom flora of Australia Volume 2. pp. [1]-656, 351 figs. Schmitten - Oberreifenberg: Koeltz Botanical Books.

Reavie, E.D. (2020). Monoraphid and naviculoids diatoms from the coastal Laurentian Great Lakes. In: Monoraphid and naviculoid diatoms from the coastal Laurentian Great Lakes. Second revided edition. Diatom Monographs Vol. 19. (Reavie, E.D. & Andersen, N.A. Eds) Vol. 19, pp. [1]-111. Oberreifenberg: Koeltz Botanical Books.

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 08 April 2020 by M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 June 2021.