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

Gyrosigma A.H. Hassall, 1845

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Gyrosigma acuminatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1853
Gyrosigma attenuatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1853
Gyrosigma balticum (Ehrenberg) Rabenhorst, 1853
Gyrosigma diaphanum Cleve, 1894
Gyrosigma obscurum (W.Smith) J.W.Griffith & Henfrey, 1856
Gyrosigma scalproides (Rabenhorst) Cleve, 1894
Gyrosigma spectabile (Grunow) Cleve, 1894
Gyrosigma tenuirostrum (Grunow) Cleve-Euler, 1952
Gyrosigma virgata (Roper) Grunow, 1877
Gyrosigma vivax (W.Smith) M.Peragallo, 1908
Gyrosigma wansbeckii (Donkin) Cleve, 1894

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: エスジケイソウ属

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	Fourtanier, E. & Kociolek, J. P. (compilers). (2011). Catalogue of Diatom Names. California Academy of Sciences, On-line Version. Updated 2011-09-19.
additional source	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.

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. Gyrosigma 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:149033