Bacillariophyceae - Bacillariales - Bacillariaceae
Full reference: A.H. Hassall. 1845. A history of the British Freshwater Algae (including descriptions of the Diatomaceae and Desmidiaceae) with upwards of one hundred Plates. I. Text. Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, London 462 pp.
Parent taxon: Bacillariaceae according to G.R. Hasle and E.E. Syvertsen 1996
See also Abbott and Ernissee 1983 and Hassall 1845
Sister taxa: Alveus, Bacillaria, Crucidenticula, Denticula, Denticulopsis, Fragilariopsis, Hantzschia, Neodenticula, Tryblionella
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (11 collections), North Pacific (6), South Atlantic (1)
• Quaternary of India (1), Indian Ocean (57), North Pacific (190), South Atlantic (16), South Pacific (17), Southern Ocean (2), United States (2: California)
• NN16 of Indian Ocean (26), South Atlantic (1)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), North Pacific (10)
• Pliocene of Chile (1), Indian Ocean (10), Japan (1), North Pacific (35), South Atlantic (1), South Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (4)
• NN12 of Indian Ocean (9), South Atlantic (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (8)
• Miocene of Indian Ocean (38), North Pacific (110), South Atlantic (6), Southern Ocean (58), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1)
Total: 628 collections including 964 occurrences
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