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Rhizosolenia setigera Brightwell, 1858 
AphiaID: 149115

Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Heterokonta (Infrakingdom) > Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum) > Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Rhizosolenianae (Superorder) > Rhizosoleniales (Order) > Rhizosoleniaceae (Family) > Rhizosolenia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Rhizosolenia Brightwell, 1858
Synonymised
taxa
  Rhizosolenia hensenii Schütt, 1900
Rhizosolenia japonica Castracane, 1886 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: M'harzi, A. (1999). Phytoplankton community structuring in some areas of the North Sea. PhD Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel, Belgium. 221 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Tomas, C.R. (Ed.) (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Horner, R.A. 2002. A taxonomic guide to some common marine phytoplankton. Biopress Ltd. Bristol. 195 p.  [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Martin, J.L., M.M. LeGresley and P.M. Strain. 2001. Phytoplankton monitoring in the Western Isles region of the Bay of Fundy during 1997-98. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2349. iv + 85 p. [details]

additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details]

additional source: Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings No. 95: 210 pp., available online at http://www.helcom.fi/stc/files/Publications/Proceedings/bsep95.pdf [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Krayesky, D. M., E. Meave del Castillo, E. Zamudio, J. N. Norris, and S. Fredericq. 2009. Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 155–186 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

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 Forma Rhizosolenia setigera f. pungens (Cleve-Euler) Brunel, 1962
Environment marine
Distribution Baie des Chaleurs [details]
Bay of Fundy [details]
Blankenberge [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Scotian Shelf [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links PlanktonNet Image
Published in AlgaeBase Logo AlgaeBase
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (96 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: phytosynthetic [details]

Distribution: neritic, cold water form; probably cosmopolitan except absent from polar waters. May for blooms, sometimes mats, especially in shallow water embayments. [details]

Habitat: pelagic or attached to various marine life [details]

Importance: most abundant phylum of algae [details]

Morphology: yellow brown in color, not green [details]

Predators: marine microorganisms and animal larvae [details]

Reproduction: general for group: both sexual and asexual [details]
Images 
Meunier (1915, pl. 8)
Meunier (1915, pl. 8)
added on 2008-07-17 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Meunier (1910, pl. 28)
Meunier (1910, pl. 28)
added on 2008-08-04 - author: A. Meunier
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
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Pleurosigma angulatum
Pleurosigma angulatum
added on 2011-03-09 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dalhousie University, Rajashree Gouda ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Rhizosolenia setigera
Rhizosolenia setigera
added on 2011-03-09 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dalhousie University, Rajashree Gouda ()
qualitystatus: not checked

PlanktonNet Image  
PlanktonNet Image
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149115
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-03-30 08:52:46Z  created  db_admin
2010-03-17 07:57:32Z  checked  Guiry, Michael D.
  
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  Citation: Guiry, Michael D. (2013). Rhizosolenia setigera Brightwell, 1858. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149115 on 2013-05-23
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