Pleurosira

Familia: Triceratiaceae
Genus: Pleurosira
Species: P. indica – P. inusitata – P. laevis – P. minor – P. nanjiensis –P. socotrensis

Pleurosira (Meneghini) Trevisan, 1848

Type species: Melosira thermalis G.Meneghini, 1845 = Pleurosira laevis (Ehrenberg, 1843) Compère, 1982

Note: Meneghini treated Pleurosira as a subgenus of Melosira, and assigned two species; Melosira (Pleurosira) thermalis, which was clearly described, and Melosira (Pleurosira) baileyi, which was based on observations by Bailey, but seemingly without a formal description (see Meneghini, 1845, p.56). A few years later, Trevisan elevated Pleurosira to the genus level.

• Pseudocerataulus Pantocsek, 1889
• Proteucylindrus Li & Chiang, 1979

• Ehrenberg, C.G. 1843. Verbreitung und Einfluss des mikroskopischen Lebens in Süd- und Nord-Amerika. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1841: 291–445. Reference page. 
• Meneghini, G. 1845. Sulla animalita delle Diatomee e revisione organografica dei generi di Diatomee stabilite dal Kuetzing. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettero ed Arti 5: 43–231. Reference page. 
• Trevisan, V.B.A. 1848. Saggio di una monografia delle Alghe Coccotalle. pp. 1–112. Padova [Padua]: coi tipi del seminario. GoogleBooks Reference page. 
• Pantocsek, J. 1889. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fossilen Bacillarien Ungarns. Brackwasser Bacillarien. Anhang: Analyse der marinen Depôts von Bory, Bremia, Nagy-Kürtös in Ungarn; Ananino und Kusnetzk in Russland. Nagytapolcsány: Julius Platzko 2: 1-123. Reference page. 
• Li, C.-W. & Chiang, Y.-M. 1979. A euryhaline and polymorphic new diatom, Proteucylindrus taiwanensis gen. et sp. nov. British Phycological Journal 14(4): 377-384. Reference page. 
  
• Compère, P. 1982. Taxonomic revision of the diatom genus Pleurosira (Eupodiscaceae). Bacillaria 5: 165-189. Reference page. 

• Pleurosira in the World Register of Marine Species

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