Rutilariaceae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cymatosirales 

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

Familia: Rutilariaceae
Genus: Rutilaria

Genera (in synonymy): Syndetocystis – †Syndetoneis

Note: Ross (1995) placed Syndetocystis and Syndetoneis in synonymy with Rutilaria. The presence of an ocellus has led some to include Rutilaria with eupodiscoid diatoms (Ross, 1976; Round et al., 1990; Sims et al., 2018), but Ross (1995) suggested that the Rutilariaceae is probably derived from the Hemiaulaceae and ancestral to the Cymatosiraceae.

Name

Rutilariaceae De Toni (1894)

Type-genus: Rutilaria Greville (1863)

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