WoRMS taxon details
Staurastrum orbiculare Meneghini ex Ralfs, 1848
609201 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:609201)
accepted
Species
Cosmoastrum orbiculare (Ralfs) G.H.Tomaszewicz, 1988 · unaccepted
Desmidium orbiculare Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted
Staurastrum farquharsonii J.Roy, 1893 · unaccepted
- Forma Staurastrum orbiculare f. elliptica Reinsch
- Forma Staurastrum orbiculare f. major Schmidle
- Forma Staurastrum orbiculare f. minus West & G.S.West 1895
- Forma Staurastrum orbiculare f. punctatum Gutwinski, 1890
- Forma Staurastrum orbiculare f. spinosa Playfair, 1908
- Forma Staurastrum orbiculare f. subangulata E.Messikommer
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. borgei G.W.Prescott
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. crassiusculum K.Förster & F.Eckert
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. denticulatum Nordstedt, 1870
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. forficulatum (P.Lundell) Playfair
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. germinosum Playfair, 1908
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. majus G.De Notaris
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. maxima P.H.G.Oye
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. messikommeri M.Hirano
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. minus Prescott, 1936
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. muticum (L.A.Brébisson) G.I.Playfair
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. nordstedtii O.F.Borge, 1918
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. planktonicum Playfair
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. protractum Playfair, 1912
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. pseudopyramidalis A.K.M.N.Islam & Akter, 2004
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. subangulatum (Messikommer) Hirano
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. subdenticulatum P.Bourrelly & A.Couté
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. subralfsii R.L.Grönblad
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. truncatum G.W.Prescott
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. verrucosum Wille
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. waterbergense M.I.Claassen
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. aculeatum Playfair, 1910 accepted as Staurastrum aggeratum var. aculeatum (Playfair) Playfair (synonym)
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. angulatum P.E.Kaiser, 1919 accepted as Staurastrum crassangulatum Coesel, 2007 (synonym)
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. bieneanum Rabenhorst, 1868 accepted as Staurastrum bieneanum Rabenhorst, 1862 (synonym)
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. bifarium (Nordstedt) Playfair accepted as Staurastrum monticulosum var. bifarium Nordstedt, 1873 (synonym)
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. depressum J.Roy & Bisset, 1886 accepted as Staurastrum ralfsii var. depressum (J.Roy & Bisset) Coesel & Meesters, 2013
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. extensum Nordstedt, 1873 accepted as Staurastrum extensum (Nordstedt) Coesel & Meesters, 2013
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. granulosum Playfair, 1910 accepted as Staurastrum aggeratum var. granulosum (Playfair) Playfair (synonym)
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. hibernicum (West) West & G.S.West, 1912 accepted as Staurastrum hibernicum West, 1892 (synonym)
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. quadratum Schmidle, 1897 accepted as Staurastrum quadratulum Coesel & Meesters, 2013
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. ralfsii West & G.S.West, 1912 accepted as Staurastrum ralfsii (West & G.S.West) Coesel & Meesters, 2013
- Forma Staurastrum orbiculare f. typica Ehrenberg, 1903 (uncertain)
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. aggeratum (Playfair) Playfair (uncertain, synonym)
- Variety Staurastrum orbiculare var. orbiculare Ralfs, 1848 (uncertain)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Ralfs, J. (1848). The British Desmidieae The drawings by Edward Jenner. pp. [i]-xxii, [i], [1]-226, 35 pls. London: Reeve, Benham & Reeve, King William Street, Strand. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:55297
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:55297 [details]
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Staurastrum orbiculare Meneghini ex Ralfs, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=609201 on 2025-03-28
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Nomenclature
original description
Ralfs, J. (1848). The British Desmidieae The drawings by Edward Jenner. pp. [i]-xxii, [i], [1]-226, 35 pls. London: Reeve, Benham & Reeve, King William Street, Strand. [details]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]
basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2025). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
LSID urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:55297 [details]
Published in AlgaeBase 
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Cosmoastrum orbiculare (Ralfs) G.H.Tomaszewicz, 1988)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Staurastrum farquharsonii J.Roy, 1893)
Published in AlgaeBase (from synonym Desmidium orbiculare Ehrenberg, 1834)
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (122 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Staurastrum orbiculare)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To ITIS
Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Cosmoastrum orbiculare (Ralfs) G.H.Tomaszewicz, 1988)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Staurastrum farquharsonii J.Roy, 1893)Published in AlgaeBase
(from synonym Desmidium orbiculare Ehrenberg, 1834)To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (122 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Staurastrum orbiculare)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To ITIS
