Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

The Australian Algae Name Index (AANI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with algae names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. AANI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian Algae, please use the Australian Algae List (AAL) link above.

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Showing Gyrosigma obscurum

Pleurosigmataceae

Gyrosigma obscurum (W.Sm.) J.W.Griff. & Henfr.

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Griffith, J.W. & Henfrey, A. (1856), The micrographic dictionary: a guide to the examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects; illustrated by forty-one plates and eight hundred and sixteen woodcuts

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302, pl. 11: fig. 27

[comb. nov.]

basionym:

Pleurosigma obscurum W.Sm.

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Wood, E.J.F. (1961), Studies on Australian and New Zealand diatoms. IV. Descriptions of further sedentary species.

Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand

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669–698

[secondary reference]

Krammer, K. & Lange-Bertalot, H. (1986), Susswasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Bacillariophyceae 1. Teil Naviculaceae

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[secondary reference]

Day, S.A., Wickham, R.P., Entwisle, T.J. & Tyler, P.A. (1995), Bibliographic checklist of non-marine algae in Australia

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[secondary reference]

Entwisle, T.J. & Nairn, L. (2011), Census of Freshwater Algae in Australia. Edn. Version 1.0

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[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pleurosigma obscurum W.Sm.

legitimate

Comment: Vulnerable (ANZECC)
APC Comment: T.J.Entwisle and L.Nairn (2011) use this taxon concept.
Distribution: New South Wales

McCarthy, P. (2012), Census of Australian Marine Diatoms

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- AAL

[secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym:

Pleurosigma obscurum W.Sm.

legitimate

Comment: Also in brackish water
Distribution: N.S.W. (South Coast)
Ex.distribution: Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A. (Great Lakes, Virginia, Gulf of Maine), Canada (Ontario, Bay of Fundy), British Isles, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Adriatic Sea, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, Antarctica (King George Island)