• Synedra thalassiothrix: Cleve (1873)

Cells are solitary, thin, highly elongated and more or less curved, with roughly similar extremities. At the extremities of the valves there is a spine.

Typical of marine environments.

Distribution:  Croatia (Vilicic et al. 2009) and Romania (Caraus 2002). In North America: Nova Scotia (Kim, Garbary and McLachlan, 2004).

The algae of Romania., Studii si Cercetari, Universitatea Bacau, Biologie 7, Caraus I., 2002, 1-694

Phytoplankton dynamics in Pomquet Harbour, Nova Scotia: a lagoon in the southern Gulf of St., Lawrence. Phycologia 43, Kim K.Y., Garbary D.J., McLachlan J.L., 2004, 311-328.

Composition and annual cycle of phytoplankton assemblages in the northeastern Adriatic Sea., Botanica Marina 52(4), Vilicic, Djakovac, Buric, Z. & Bosak, 2009, 291-305.