Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Phylum Heterokontophyta > Subphylum Bacillariophytina > Class Bacillariophyceae > Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae > Superorder Thalassiosiranae > Order Thalassiosirales > Family Stephanodiscaceae

Stephanodiscus C.G. Ehrenberg, 1845

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Stephanodiscus alpinus Hustedt, 1942
Stephanodiscus astraea (Ehrenberg) Grunow, 1880
Stephanodiscus binderanus (Kützing) Krieger, 1927
Stephanodiscus bramaputrae Ehrenberg, 1854
Stephanodiscus dubius Hustedt, 1928
Stephanodiscus hantzschii Grunow, 1880
Stephanodiscus neoastraea Håkansson & Hickel, 1986
Stephanodiscus parvus Stoermer & Håkansson, 1984
Stephanodiscus pulcherrimus A. Cleve-Euler, 1910
Stephanodiscus subtilis (Goor) A.Cleve, 1951
Stephanodiscus tenuis Skabichevskii, 1960

Literature

original description	Ehrenberg, C.G. (1845). Neue Untersuchungen über das kleinste Leben als geologisches Moment. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1845: 53-87
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	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.
additional source	Sala, S.E., Sar, E.A. (1995). Cyclostephanos, taxonomic synonym of Stephanodiscus. Gayana Bot. 52(2): 53-59.

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. Stephanodiscus C.G. Ehrenberg, 1845. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149079