Aulacoseira | Genera - Diatoms of North America

Aulacoseira Guide

Category

Centric
Class

Coscinodiscophyceae
Order

Aulacoseirales
Family

Aulacoseiraceae

Type Species

Aulacoseira crenulata (Ehrenb.) Thwaites

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding, Mark Edlund - Jul 2008
Reviewer

Sam Rushforth - Apr 2010

Species
Citations & Links

Citations & Links

Citations

Bethge, H. (1925) Melosira und ihre Planktonbegleiter Pflanzenforschung, 3: 1-78
Crawford, R.M. (1978) The taxonomy and classification of the diatom genus Melosira C. A. Agardh. III. Melosira lineata (Dillw.) C.A. Ag. and M. varians C.A.Ag. Phycologia 17(3): 237-250.
Crawford, R.M. (1981) The diatom genus Aulacoseira Thwaites: its structure and taxonomy Phycologia 20: 174-192
Crawford, R.M. and Likhoshway, Y.V. (1999) The frustule structure of original material of Aulacoseira distans (Ehrenberg) Simonsen. Diatom Research 14: 239-250

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.1999.9705468
Crawford, R.M., Likhoshway, Y.V. and Jahn, R. (2003) Morphology and identity of Aulacoseira italica and typification of Aulacoseira (Bacillariophyta) Diatom Research 18: 1-19.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2003.9705569
Denys, L., Muylaert, K., Krammer, K., Joosten, T., Reid, M. and Rioual, P. (2003) Aulacoseira subborealis stat. nov. (Bacillariophyceae): a common but neglected plankton diatom. Nova Hedwigia 77(3-4):407-427
Edgar, S.M. and Theriot, E. (2004) Phylogeny of Aulacoseira (Bacillariophyta) based on molecules and morphology Journal of Phycology 40: 772-788
Enache, M.D., Potapova, M.G., Polaskey, M.T. and Spaulding, S.A. (2022) Aulacoseira newjerseyana sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) a new freshwater centric diatom species Diatom Research

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2022.2118834
English, J. and Potapova, M. (2009) Aulacoseira pardata sp. nov., A. nivalis comb. nov., A. nivaloides comb. et stat. nov., and their occurrences in Western North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 158(1):37-48

Publication Link: 10.1635/053.158.0102
Florin, M.B (1981) The taxonomy of some Melosira species, a comparative morphological study. II. Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on recent and fossil diatoms, Budapest, Hungary. Koeltz, Koenigstein, Germany.
Haberyan, K.A. and Horn, S.P. (2020) Discovery of an undescribed species of Aulacoseira from highland Costa Rica. Diatom Research 35:3, 289-300.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2020.1797884
Houk, V. (2010) Morphology and ultrastructure of the freshwater fossil diatom Aulacoseira campylosira (Ehrenberg) comb. nov. from Ehrenberg type material Diatom Research 25(2): 307-321

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2010.9705852
Jewson, D.H., Granin, N.G, Zhdanov, A.A. and Gnatovsky, R.U. (2009) Effect of snow depth on under-ice irradiance and growth of Aulacoseira baicalensis in Lake Baikal Aquatic Ecology 43: 673-679

Publication Link: 10.1007/s10452-009-9267-2
Krammer, K. (1991) Morphology and taxonomy in some taxa of the genus Aulacoseira Thwaites (Bacillariophyceae). II. Taxa in the A. granulata-. italica- and lirata-groups. Nova Hedwigia 53: 477-496
Likhoshway, Y.V. and Crawford, R.M. (2001) The rimoportula — a neglected feature in the systematics of Aulacoseira E. Economou-Amilli (ed.). Proceedings of the 16th International Diatom Symposium. Amvrosiou Press, Athens, Greece.
Lund, J.W.G. (1954) The seasonal cycle of the plankton diatom, Melosira italica (Ehr.) Kütz. subsp. subarctica O. Mull. Journal of Ecology 42: 151-179
Manoylov, K.M., Ognjanova-Rumenova, N. and Stevenson, R.J. (2009) Morphotype variations in subfossil diatom species of Aulacoseira in 24 Michigan Lakes, USA Acta Bot. Croat. 68(2): 401-419.
Pearce, C., Cremer, H. and Wagner-Cremer, F. (2010) Aulacoseira coroniformis sp. nov., a new diatom (Bacillariophyta) species from Highlands Hammock State Park, Florida Phytotaxa 13: 40–48
Siver, P.A. and Hamilton, P.B. (2005) A reevaluation of Aulacoseira nygaardii (Camburn) Camburn & D.F. Charles (Bacillariophyceae): based on scanning electron microscopy of type material Nova Hedwigia 81: 257-265.
Siver, P.A. and Kling, H. (1997) Morphological observations of Aulacoseira using scanning electron microscopy Can. J. Bot. 75: 1807–1835
Stoermer, E.F. and Andresen, N.A. (1990) Aulacoseira agassizii in North America Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 100: 217-223
Stoermer, E.F., Wolin, J.A., Schelske, C.L. and Conley, D.J. (1985) Variations in Melosira islandica valve morphology in Lake Ontario sediments related to eutrophication and silica depletion. Limnology and Oceanography 30: 414-418
Tremarin, P.I., Ludwig, T.A.V. and Torgan, L.C. (2012) Ultrastructure of Aulacoseira brasiliensis sp. nov. (Coscinodiscophyceae) and comparison with related species Fottea, Olomouc 12(2): 171–188
Tuji, A. (2015) Distribution and taxonomy of the Aulacoseira distans species complex found in Japanese harmonic artificial reservoirs Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. B 41(2): 53–60.
Tuji, A. and Houki, A. (2004) Taxonomy, ultrastructure, and biogeography of the Aulacoseira subarctica species complex. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series B (Botany), Tokyo 30(2):35-55.
Tuji, A. and Williams, D.M. (2006) Examination of type material for Aulacoseira pfaffiana (Bacillariophyceae) with special reference to the position of its rimoportula Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. B, 32(3), pp. 117–121.
Tuji, A. and Williams, D. M. (2006) Type examination of the freshwater centric diatom Aulacoseira pusilla (F. Meister) Tuji et Houki Diatom 22:70-73.
Usolseva, M.V. and Likhoshway, Y.V. (2007) An analysis of type material of Aulacoseira islandica (O. Muller) Simonsen. Diatom Research 22: 209-216
Van de Vijver, B. (2012) Aulacoseira principissa sp. nov., a new 'centric' diatom species from the sub-Antarctic region Phytotaxa 52: 33-42
Van Landingham, S.L. (1964) Miocene non-marine diatoms from the Yakima region in south central Washington Nova Hedwigia 14: 1-78

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Spaulding, S., Edlund, M. (2008). Aulacoseira. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved December 12, 2025, from https://diatoms.org/genera/aulacoseira

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