Cestodiscus ovalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coscinodiscales 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Diaphoretickes
Cladus: Sar
Infraregnum: Heterokonta
Phylum: Ochrophyta
Subphylum: Bacillariophytina
Classis: Bacillariophyceae
Subclassis: Coscinodiscophycidae
Superordo: Coscinodiscanae
Ordo: Coscinodiscales

Familia: Coscinodiscaceae
Genus: Cestodiscus
Species: †Cestodiscus ovalis

Name

Cestodiscus ovalis Greville, 1865 (originally as Cestodiscus (?) ovalis)

Note: Harwood (1986) also described a Cestodiscus ovalis, but this must be treated as a younger homonym and therefore as nom. illeg.


References

  • Greville, R.K. 1865. Descriptions of new and rare diatoms. Series XVI. Transactions of the Microscopical Society, New Series, London 13: 43–57. Reference page. 
  • Harwood, D.M. 1986. Diatoms. In: Barrett, P.J. (ed.), Antarctic Cenozoic history from MSSCS-1 drill-hole, McMurdo Sound. New Zealand Dept. Sci. Ind., Res., Misc. Bull. 237: 69-109. Reference page.