Fragilaria

Fragilaria
Fragilaria crotonensis
Scientific classification
(unranked): SAR
Superphylum: Heterokonta
Class: Bacillariophyceae
Order: Pennales
Suborder: Araphidineae
Family: Fragilariaceae
Genus: Fragilaria
Lyngbye (1819)
Species

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Fragilaria is a genus of freshwater and saltwater diatoms. It is usually a colonial diatom, forming filaments of cells mechanically joined by protrusions on the face and in the center of their valves. The individual diatoms appear swollen in their centers where they are joined to the colonial ribbon.[1] the genus grows as both plankton and benthic species, free living in colonies or epiphytic. Some species are bloom forming diatoms in eutrophic lakes. The type species is Fragilaria pectinalis Lyngbye from designating a lectotype from Conferva pectinalis O.F.Müller.[2] The taxonomy of the genus is still uncertain.[3]

Description

The Fragilaria have a pseudoraphe, rather than a true longitudinal groove in their valves. The valves are symmetrical with transverse striae.[3]

Some species

References

  1. ↑ Kociolek, edited by Joseph Seckbach, Patrick (2011). The Diatom World. Dordrecht: Springer. p. 61. ISBN 978-94-007-1327-7.
  2. ↑ Wehr, John D.; Sheath, Robert G. (Jun 5, 2015). Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification (Aquatic Ecology). Elsevier. ISBN 9780123858771.
  3. 1 2 John, David M.; Whitton, Brian A.; Brook, Alan J., eds. (2011). The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles : An Identification Guide to Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521193757.

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