Coscinodiscus deformatus

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: Coscinodiscus
Species: Coscinodiscus deformatus

Name

Coscinodiscus deformatus Mann, 1907

Note: Pantocsek (1903, pl. 28, fig. 411) illustrated his new species, Coscinodiscus deformatus, from Káránd in Hungary (now Cărand in Romania), but did not describe it. A few years later, Mann (1907) described and illustrated his new species from marine sediments collected off the Galapagos Islands. Thus, these two taxa are unlikely to be the same species.

References

  • Mann, A. 1907. Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross Voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888-1904. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 10(5): 221–419.  Reference page.