Interesting Facts
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Description
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Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -9,001 meters (0 to -29,531 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- T. Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Chromobiota
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1991
- Infrakingdom:
Heterokonta
()
- (Cavalier-Smith, 1986) Cavalier-Smith, 1995
- Phylum:
Ochrophyta
()
- (Cavalier-Smith, 1986) T. Cavalier-Smith, 1995
- Subphylum:
Diatomeae
()
- (Dumortier, 1821) Cavalier-Smith, 1995
- Class:
Bacillariophyceae
()
- Haeckel, 1878
- Subclass:
Bacillariophycidae
()
- (Haeckel, 1878) Mann, 1990
- Order:
Bacillariales
()
- Hendey, 1937
- Family:
Bacillariaceae
()
- Ehrenberg, 1831
- Genus:
Nitzschia
()
- Hassall, 1845, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
delicatissima
- Cleve
- Botanical name: - Nitzschia delicatissima Cleve
- Specific epithet:
delicatissima
- Cleve
- Genus:
Nitzschia
(
- Family:
Bacillariaceae
(
- Order:
Bacillariales
(
- Subclass:
Bacillariophycidae
(
- Class:
Bacillariophyceae
(
- Subphylum:
Diatomeae
(
- Phylum:
Ochrophyta
(
- Infrakingdom:
Heterokonta
(
- Subkingdom:
Chromobiota
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
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Further Reading
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- Bacteria and phytoplankton of the seasonal surveys of 1972 and 1973 / Ann Arbor, Mich.: Great Lakes Research Division, University of Michigan, 1975. url p. 23.
- Discovery reports. London; Cambridge University Press. url p. 173, p. 220, p. 236, p. 238, p. 241, p. 249, p. 262, p. 266, p. 267, p. 286.
- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Cambridge [etc.]Cambridge University Press [etc.] url p. 135, p. 136, p. 152, p. 175.
- Marine and estuarine environments, organisms, and geology of the Cape Cod region; an indexed bibliography, 1665-1965 [by] Anne E. Yentsch [and others. Woods Hole, Mass., Systematics Ecology Program, Marine Biological Laboratory[c1966] url p. 134.
- Meddelelser om Grønland. København, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, 1879-1979. url p. 147, p. 282.
- Notes on some Atlantic Plankton-organisms. Communicated 1900, April 11. Stockholm, Norstedt, 1900. url .
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 16.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1979- url p. 154.
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 193.
- Report of the Dove Marine Laboratory / the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. [Newcastle-upon-Tyne]: The University, url p. 51.
- Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic expedition in the "Fram" 1898-1902. .. Kristiania, In commission by T. O. Brøgger, 1907-1919. url , .
- Report of the second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1898-1902. Published by Videnskabs-selskabet i Kristiania, at the expense of the Fridjof Nansen Fund for the Advancement of Science. KristianiaT.O. Brøgger1907-19 url , , .
- Results of the third joint US-USSR Bering & Chukchi Seas expedition (BERPAC): Summer 1988 / John F. Turner, . .. [et al.]; P.A. Nagel, editor. Washington, DC: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1992. url p. 121, p. 122.
- The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 160, p. 161, p. 163, p. 165.
- The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic Press [etc.], 1865-1968. url p. 523, p. 99.
- The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 44 1917-20 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 177, p. 541.
- The seasonal distribution of Atlantic plankton organisms / by P.T. Cleve. Göteborg: D.F. Bonniers, 1900. url p. 16, p. 333.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2637657
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14496081
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3956918
Footnotes
- Mean = -1,713.210 meters (-5,620.768 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,671.530 based on 17,409 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
