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DIVISION
CLASS
ORDER
Striatellales
FAMILY
Striatellaceae
GENUS
SPECIES
Grammatophora oceanica, Ehrenberg, 1840
IMAGES
Synonyms
  • Grammatophora marina var. communis: Grunow ex Van Heurck (1880)
Morphological Characteristics

Solitary or joined in zigzagging colonies. In girdle view the valves appear rectangular and elongated. In valve view the valves are linear or elliptical. There is a linear pseudo-raphe. At the extremities of the valves there is a small round hyaline area.

Morphological Data
Distinctive morphometric characters
  • Cell Length: from 15 to 150 µm
  • Cell Width: from 4 to 8 µm
  • Striae in 10 µm: from 20 to 24 n°
Distribution

Marine environments.

Distribution: Grammatophora oceanica.  in Europe: Romania (Caraus, 2002), Spain (Varela, 1982); Atlantic: Canary Islands (Gil-Rodríguez et al., 2003); in Asia: Japan (Sawai et al., 2005).

As Grammatophora marina var. communis. Africa: Mauritius (Silva, Basson & Moe, 1996), South Africa (Silva, Basson & Moe, 1996); Asia: Sri Lanka (Silva, Basson & Moe, 1996).

Notes

Toxicity:

Not reported.

Resistence Stages:

Not reported.

References

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

Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean., University of California Publications in Botany 79:, Silva P.C., Basson P.W., Moe R.L., 1996, 1-1259

Die kieselschaligen Bacillarien oder Diatomeen., Nordhausen: Zu finden bei W. Köhne., Kützing, 1844, pp. [i-vii], [1]-152, pls 1-30.

Erstlich über ausgezeichnete jetzt lebende peruanische und mexikanische Meeres-Infusorien, welche mit zur Erläuterung räthselhafter fossiler Formen der Kreidebildung dienen., Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1840:, Ehrenberg C.G., 1840, 157-162

Three extant species of Paralia (Bacillariophyceae) along the coast of Japan., Phycologia ., Sawai Y., Nagumo T., Toyoda K., 2005, 44: 517-529

Proctoctista. In: Lista de especies marinas de Canarias (algas, hongos, plantas y animales). (Moro, L., Martín, J.L., Garrido, M.J. & Izquierdo, I. Eds), Las Palmas: Consejería de Política Territorial y Medio Ambiente del Gobierno de Canarias., Gil-Rodríguez M.C., Haroun R., Ojeda Rodríguez A., Berecibar Zugasti E., Domínguez Santana P., Herrera Morán B., 2003, 5 - 30

Catálogo florístico de las diatomeas bentónicas de las costas de Galicia, Collectanea Botanica 13(2), Varela M., 1982, 987 - 996

SHAPE
Shape Type
simple
Shape Unit
Cell
Cod:
8 - Prism on elliptic base
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