Bacillariophyceae - Rhizosoleniales - Rhizosoleniaceae
De Toni attributes name to "P. Petit (1889) in Pell. Diat. I, pg 202"
Full reference: G. B. De Toni. 1890. Osservazioni sulla tassonomia delle Bacillariee (Diatomee) seguite da un prospetto dei generi delle medesime. La Notarisia 5:885-922
Parent taxon: Rhizosoleniales according to P. C. Silva 1962
See also Chrétiennot-Dinet et al. 1993
Sister taxon: Pyxillaceae
Subtaxa: Dactyliosolen Proboscia Pseudosolenia Rhizosolenia
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (17 collections), North Pacific (16), South Atlantic (1)
• Neodenticula seminae of North Pacific (1)
• Brunhes of North Pacific (2)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (61), North Pacific (675), South Atlantic (5), South Pacific (8), Southern Ocean (91), Sweden (1)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (13), South Atlantic (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (13), Southern Ocean (9)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (6), Japan (2), North Pacific (97), Southern Ocean (94)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (2)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (2), Southern Ocean (4)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (3), North Pacific (31), Southern Ocean (239), United States (1: North Carolina)
• NN1 of North Pacific (5)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Oligocene of North Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (1)
• Paleocene of Antarctica (12)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (15), Canada (14: Northwest Territories)
Total: 1445 collections including 2289 occurrences