Nitzschia Hassall 1845 (diatom)

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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