Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Phylum Heterokontophyta > Subphylum Bacillariophytina > Class Bacillariophyceae > Subclass Bacillariophycidae > Superorder Bacillariophycanae > Order Bacillariales > Family Bacillariaceae

Nitzschia A.H. Hassall, 1845

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Homoeocladia*	C.A. Agardh, 1827	synonym

Children

Homoeocladia filiformis W.Smith, 1856
Nitzschia acicularis (Kützing) W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia actydrophila Hasle, 1965
Nitzschia americana Hasle, 1964
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow, 1862
Nitzschia angularis W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia austriaca Hustedt, 1959
Nitzschia bilobata W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia braarudii G.R.Hasle, 1960
Nitzschia capitellata Hustedt, 1922
Nitzschia clausii Hantzsch, 1860
Nitzschia closterium (Ehrenberg) W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia coarctata Grunow, 1880
Nitzschia communis Rabenhorst, 1860
Nitzschia commutata Grunow, 1880
Nitzschia curvirostris Cleve
Nitzschia cylindrus (Grunow) Hasle, 1972
Nitzschia delicatissima Cleve, 1897
Nitzschia delicatula Hasle, 1965
Nitzschia dubia W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia elegantula Grunow, 1881
Nitzschia fasciculata (Grunow) Grunow, 1881
Nitzschia filiformis (W.Smith) Hustedt
Nitzschia fonticola (Grunow) Grunow, 1881
Nitzschia fraudulenta Cleve, 1897
Nitzschia frigida Grunow, 1880
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow, 1880
Nitzschia gandersheimiensis Krasske, 1927
Nitzschia gracilis Hantzsch, 1860
Nitzschia granii G.R.Hasle, 1964
Nitzschia grunowii Hasle, 1972
Nitzschia hantzschiana Rabenhorst, 1860
Nitzschia holsatica Hustedt, 1930
Nitzschia homburgiensis Lange-Bertalot, 1978
Nitzschia hungarica Grunow, 1862
Nitzschia hybrida Grunow
Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow, 1862
Nitzschia intermedia Hantzsch ex Cleve & Grunow, 1880
Nitzschia kuetzingiana Hilse, 1863
Nitzschia lacunarum Hustedt, 1930
Nitzschia linearis W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia littoralis Grunow, 1880
Nitzschia longissima (Brébisson) Ralfs, 1861
Nitzschia lorenziana Grunow, 1879
Nitzschia marginulata Grunow, 1880
Nitzschia microcephala Grunow, 1878
Nitzschia nana Grunow, 1881
Nitzschia obtusa W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia ovalis H.J.Arnott, 1880
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) W.Smith, 1856
Nitzschia paleacea Grunow in Van Heurck, 1881
Nitzschia perminuta (Grunow) M.Peragallo, 1903
Nitzschia perpusilla Rabenhorst, (1861)1864
Nitzschia plana W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia polaris Grunow ex Cleve, 1883
Nitzschia pseudodelicatissima Hasle, 1976
Nitzschia pseudonana Hasle, 1974
Nitzschia pungens Grunow ex Cleve, 1897
Nitzschia pusilla Grunow, 1862
Nitzschia recta Hantzsch ex Rabenhorst, 1862
Nitzschia scalpelliformis Grunow, 1880
Nitzschia sigma (Kützing) W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia sigmoidea (Nitzsch) W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia socialis Gregory, 1857
Nitzschia spathulata W.Smith, 1853
Nitzschia spectabilis (Ehrenberg) Ralfs, 1861
Nitzschia subfraudulenta G.R.Hasle, 1974
Nitzschia sublinearis Hustedt, 1930
Nitzschia thermalis (Ehrenberg) Auerswald, 1861
Nitzschia tryblionella Hantzsch, 1860
Nitzschia turgidula Hustedt, 1958
Nitzschia valdestriata Aleem & Hustedt, 1951
Nitzschia vitrea G.Norman, 1861
Nitzschia vivax W.Smith

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ササノハケイソウ／ニッチア属

Literature

original description	Hassall, A.H. (1845). A history of the British Freshwater Algae (including descriptions of the Diatomaceae and Desmidiaceae) with upwards of one hundred Plates. I. Text. Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, London. 462 pp.
basis of record	Round, F.E.; Crawford, R.M.; Mann, D.G. (1990). The diatoms: biology and morphology of the genera. Cambridge University Press: London, UK. ISBN 0-521-363187. 747 pp.
additional source	Archibald, R.E.M. (1972). A preliminary key to the fresh and brackish water species of the genus Nitzschia in South Africa. Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa. 18,19: 33-46, 37-55.
additional source	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings. No. 95: 210 pp.
additional source	Fourtanier, E. & Kociolek, J. P. (compilers). (2011). Catalogue of Diatom Names. California Academy of Sciences, On-line Version. Updated 2011-09-19.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

Citation

Kociolek, J.P.; Blanco, S.; Coste, M.; Ector, L.; Liu, Y.; Karthick, B.; Kulikovskiy, M.; Lundholm, N.; Ludwig, T.; Potapova, M.; Rimet, F.; Sabbe, K.; Sala, S.; Sar, E.; Taylor, J.; Van de Vijver, B.; Wetzel, C.E.; Williams, D.M.; Witkowski, A.; Witkowski, J. (2025). DiatomBase. Nitzschia A.H. Hassall, 1845. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149045