Campylodiscus decorus Brébisson 1854
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Bacillariophyta
Subphylum Bacillariophytina
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Bacillariophycidae
Order Surirellales
Family Surirellaceae
Genus Campylodiscus
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Zeiss Planapo 40x/1.0, DIC, 110µm, stacked in Photoshop, Marine sample, Alboran Sea.. 31 May 2020. Forbes Pettigrew. © Forbes Pettigrew.

Campylodiscus decorus Brébisson Zeiss Planapo 40x/1.0, DIC, 110µm, stacked in Photoshop, Marine sample, Alboran Sea.
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Publication details
Campylodiscus decorus Brébisson 1854: 251, fig. 2
Published in: Brébisson, A. de (1854). Note sur quelques diatomées marines rares ou peu connues, du littoral de Cherbourg. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg 2: 241-258, 1 pl. Download PDF
Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Campylodiscus is Campylodiscus clypeus (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg ex Kützing.
Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Coronia decora (Brébisson) Ruck & Guiry
Type information
France: Cherbourg
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a marine species.
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Source of current name
Ruck, E. & Guiry, M.D. (2016). Validation of the diatom genus name Coronia (Surirellaceae, Bacillariophyta). Notulae Algarum 11: 1-3.
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, no figs.
Proschkina-Lavrenko, A.I. [Ed.] (1950). Diatomovyi Analiz, Kniga 3. Opredelitel' iskopaemykh i sovremennykh diatomik vodoroslei Poriadok Pennales. Vol. 3 (1). pp. [1]-398, 117 pls. Kiev: Botanicheskii Institut im V.L. Komarova Akademii Nauk S.S.S.R. Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelystvo Geologicheskoi Literatury. [in Russian]
Sims, P.A. (ed.) (1996). An atlas of British diatoms arranged by B. Hartley based on illustrations by H.G. Barber and J.R. Carter. pp. [2], 1-601, incl. 290 pls. Bristol: Biopress Ltd.
Witkowski, A., Lange-Bertalot, H. & Metzeltin, D. (2000). Diatom flora of marine coasts I. Iconographia Diatomologica 7: 1-925, 219 pls with 4504 figs.
Created: 23 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 11 February 2020 by M.D. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2021.
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