Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Phylum Heterokontophyta > Subphylum Bacillariophytina > Class Bacillariophyceae > Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae > Superorder Coscinodiscanae > Order Melosirales > Family Melosiraceae

Melosira C.A. Agardh, 1824

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gaillionella*	Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1826	synonym
*Gaillonella*	J.B.M. Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1825	synonym
*Gallionella*		synonym

Children

Gaillonella crenulata
Gaillonella distans Ehrenberg, 1837
Gaillonella italica Ehrenberg, 1838
Gaillonella lirata Ehrenberg, 1843
Gaillonella sulcata Weisse, 1854
Melosira ambigua (Grunow) O.F.Müller
Melosira arctica Dickie, 1852
Melosira arenaria Moore ex Ralfs, 1843
Melosira borreri Greville, 1833
Melosira costata Greville, 1866
Melosira discigera Agardh, 1824
Melosira distans (Grunow in Van Heurck) Skabichevskii, 1960
Melosira dubia Kützing, 1844
Melosira granulata Otto Müller, 1903
Melosira hyperborea Grunow, 1882
Melosira islandica Cleve-Euler, 1938
Melosira islandica O.F.Müller, 1906
Melosira italica (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1844
Melosira italica Otto Müller, 1906
Melosira lineata (Dillwyn) C.Agardh, 1824
Melosira lirata (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1844
Melosira moniliformis (O.F.Müller) C.Agardh, 1824
Melosira montagnei (Kützing) N.G.W.Lagerstedt
Melosira octogona A.W.F.Schmidt, 1893
Melosira oestrupi Cleve-Euler, 1910
Melosira oestrupii Cleve-Euler
Melosira roeseana Rabenhorst, 1852
Melosira roseana Rabenhorst
Melosira subflexilis Kützing, 1833
Melosira subsalsa Cleve-Euler, 1912
Melosira subtilis Van Goor, 1924
Melosira undulata (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1844
Melosira varians C.Agardh, 1827
Melosira westii W.Smith, 1856

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: メロシーラ属

Literature

original description	Agardh, C. A. (1824). Systema algarum. Adumbravit C.A. Agardh. Lundae Literis Berlingianis. Lundae. Berlingiana, Lund, Sweden.
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	Hartley, B., Ross, R. & Williams, D.M. (1986). A check-list of the freshwater, brackish and marine diatoms of the British Isles and adjoining coastal waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 66(3): 531-610.
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	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. Melosira C.A. Agardh, 1824. 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:149042