Bennettella

Category

Monoraphid
Class

Bacillariophyceae
Order

Achnanthales
Family

Cocconeidaceae

Type Species

Bennettella ceticola (E.W.Nelson) R.W.Holmes

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Mike Sullivan, Tom Frankovich, Matt Ashworth, Roksana Majewska - Dec 2024

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Bennett, A.G. (1920) On the occurrence of diatoms on the skin of whales. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 91: 352–357.
Ferrario, M.E., Cefarelli, A.O., Fazio, A., Bordino, P. and Romero, O.E. (2019) Bennettella ceticola (Nelson ex Bennett) Holmes on the skin of Franciscana dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) of the Argentinean Sea: an emendation of the generic description. Diatom Research 33: 485–497.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2019.1572651
Holmes, R.W. (1985) The morphology of diatoms epizoic on cetaceans and their transfer from Cocconeis to two new genera. British Phycological Journal 20: 43-57
Nemoto, T. (1956) On the diatoms of the skin film of the whales in the Northern Pacific. Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute, Tokyo 11: 99–132.

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Sullivan, M., Frankovich, T., Ashworth, M., Majewska, R. (2024). Bennettella. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved May 01, 2026, from https://diatoms.org/genera/bennettella?x-craft-preview=409442409a997390693ff24c7010fd6f1c96fb56f8f091fa016a63de9a54aaccecpiqubknd

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