Staurosira capucina (Desmazières) Comère 1892

Current name: Fragilaria capucina Desmazières
Anderson Lake, Washington, USA; 1000x, DIC - 18 May 2008. Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net)

Publication Details
Staurosira capucina (Desmazières) Comère 1892: 105

Published in: Comère, J. (1892). Diatomées du Bassin Sous-Pyrénéen et de la partie des Pyrénées correspondant aux départments de la Haute-Garonne, de l'Ariége et des Hautes-Pyrénées. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 26: 85-112.

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Staurosira is Staurosira construens Ehrenberg.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Fragilaria capucina Desmazières.

Source of Synonymy
Garcia, M.L., Maidana, N.I., Ector, L. & Morales, E.A. (2017). Staurosira patagonica sp. nov., a new diatom (Bacillariophyta) from southern Argentina, with a discussion on the genus Staurosira Ehrenberg. Nova Hedwigia Beiheft 146: 103-123, 47 figs.

Basionym
Fragilaria capucina Desmazières

Type Information
Type locality: France; (INA 1996) Lectotype: an individual from BM 81302 (located at england finder Q33-1: Fig. 6O: (Reinsch 1876: 198) Notes: Isolectotype: TNS.

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 29 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 18 January 2022

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Taxonomic note
Basionym inferred [INA] - (21 September 2017) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 18 January 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 31 May 2025