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Coscinodiscus marginatus Ehrenberg 1843
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- 2. Biology Department, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois, USA
- 3. Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italia
Description
Coscinodiscus marginatus Ehrenberg (1843: 412) (Fig. 9)
References: Hendey 1964, p. 78, pl. 22, fig.2; Desikachary 1988, pl. 537, figs 1–4, pl. 538, figs 1–6.
Features: Diameter 41–70 μm.
Description: Valves circular, convex with large hexagonal areolae arranged in quincunx structure. Marginal areolae smaller in size, central area absent. Valve margin broad.
Remarks: Deposited from the plankton.
Ecology and Distribution: A widely distributed pelagic species. Previously reported from the Gulf (Al-Kandari et al. 2009). Frequent in Basra corals.
Notes
Published as part of Al-Handal, Adil Y., Thomas, Evan W. & Pennesi, Chiara, 2018, Marine benthic diatoms in the newly discovered coral reefs, off Basra coast, Southern Iraq, pp. 111-152 in Phytotaxa 372 (2) on page 116, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.372.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13728822
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.13728826 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/phytotaxa.372.2.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/13728822 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFAB1E53FF9A2F60FFE9F02CFFEEFF8A (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/0392662BFF9F2F65FF61F447FDFAFA2E (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ehrenberg
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Phylum
- Ochrophyta
- Order
- Coscinodiscales
- Family
- Coscinodiscaceae
- Genus
- Coscinodiscus
- Species
- marginatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coscinodiscus marginatus Ehrenberg, 1843 sec. Al-Handal, Thomas & Pennesi, 2018
References
- Ehrenberg, C. G. (1843) Verbreitung und Einflufs des mikroskopischen Lebens in Sud-und Nord-Amerika. Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1841: 291 - 445.
- Hendey, N. I. (1964) An Introductory Account of the Smaller Algae of British Coastal Waters, Part V: Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms). Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 317 pp.
- Desikachary, T. V. (1988) Marine diatoms of the Indian Ocean region. Atlas of diatoms. Fascicle V. Madras Science Foundation, Madras, 234 pp.
- Al-Kandari, M., Al-Yamani, F. & Al-Rifaie, K. (2009) Marine Phytoplankton Atlas of Kuwait's Waters. Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 354 pp.