Description
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Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 14 meters (47 feet).Standard Deviation = 43.240 based on 2,909 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- T. Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Chromobiota
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1991
- Infrakingdom:
Heterokonta
()
- (Cavalier-Smith, 1986) Cavalier-Smith, 1995
- Phylum:
Bacillariophyta
()
- (Cavalier-Smith, 1986) T. Cavalier-Smith, 1995
- Subphylum:
Diatomeae
()
- (Dumortier, 1821) Cavalier-Smith, 1995
- Class:
Cymbellales
()
- Haeckel, 1878
- Subclass:
Bacillariophycidae
()
- (Haeckel, 1878) Mann, 1990
- Order:
Bacillariophyceae
()
- D.g. Mann, in F.e. Round Et Al., 1990
- Family:
Rhoicospheniaceae
()
- Chen & Zhu, 1983
- Genus:
Rhoicosphenia
()
- Specific epithet:
abbreviata
- (C. Agardh) Lange-Bertalot
- Botanical name: - Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (C. Agardh) Lange-Bertalot
- Specific epithet:
abbreviata
- (C. Agardh) Lange-Bertalot
- Genus:
Rhoicosphenia
(
- Family:
Rhoicospheniaceae
(
- Order:
Bacillariophyceae
(
- Subclass:
Bacillariophycidae
(
- Class:
Cymbellales
(
- Subphylum:
Diatomeae
(
- Phylum:
Bacillariophyta
(
- Infrakingdom:
Heterokonta
(
- Subkingdom:
Chromobiota
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Rhoicosphenia
There are approximately 6 species in this genus:
R. abbreviata · R. curvata · R. flexa · R. marina · R. pullus · R. stauroneiformis
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Notes
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Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed May 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal May 14, 2008:
- Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem: GEO Biodiversity Day
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NODC WOD01 Plankton Database
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
- NLBIF: Limnodata
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3311104
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13282849
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3943692
