Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Heterokonta > Phylum Ochrophyta > Subphylum Khakista > Class Bacillariophyceae > Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae > Superorder Coscinodiscanae > Order Melosirales > Family Melosiraceae

Melosira C.Agardh, 1824

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gaillionella*	Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1826	synonym
*Gaillonella*	Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1825	synonym

Children

Melosira arctica Dickie, 1852
Melosira borreri Greville, 1833
Melosira crenulata (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1844
Melosira dubia C.G.Kützing
Melosira hyperborea Grunow, 1882
Melosira islandica O.F.Müller, 1906
Melosira lineata (Dillwyn) C.Agardh, 1824
Melosira moniliformis (O.F.Müller) C.Agardh, 1824
Melosira montagnei (Kützing) N.G.W.Lagerstedt
Melosira nummuloides C.Agardh, 1824
Melosira octogona A.W.F.Schmidt, 1893
Melosira oestrupii Cleve-Euler
Melosira roseana Rabenhorst
Melosira subflexilis Kützing, 1833
Melosira subtilis A.C.J.Goor
Melosira undulata (Ehrenberg) Kützing
Melosira varians C.Agardh, 1827

Literature

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	Hartley, B. (1986). A check-list of the freshwater, brackish and marine diatoms of the British Isles and adjoining coastal waters. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 66: 531-610.
additional source	Algaebase

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

External Links

GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Guiry, Michael D. (2014). Melosira C.Agardh, 1824. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2014). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149042