Denticula

Category

Nitzschioid
Class

Bacillariophyceae
Order

Bacillariales
Family

Bacillariaceae

Type Species

Denticula tenuis Kütz.

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding, Mark Edlund - Dec 2008
Reviewer

Sam Rushforth - May 2010

Species
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Akiba, F. and Yanagisawa, Y. (1985) Taxonomy, morphology and phylogeny of the Neogene diatom zonal marker species in the middle-to-high latitudes of the North Pacific. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Vol. 87. (Kagami, H., Karig, D.E. et al. Eds), pp. 483-554.. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Geitler, L. (1977) Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Epithemiaceen Epithemia, Rhopalodia und Denticula (Diatomophyceae) und ihre vermutlich symbiotischen Sphäroidkörper Plant Systematics and Evolution 128 (3-4): 259-275

Publication Link: 10.1007/BF00984562
Hamsher, S.E., Graeff, C.L., Stepanek, J.G. and Kociolek, J.P. (2014) Frustular morphology and polyphyly in freshwater Denticula (Bacillariophyceae) species, and the description of Tetralunata gen. nov. (Epithemiaceae, Rhopalodiales) Plant Ecology and Evolution 147 (3): 346–365

Publication Link: 10.5091/plecevo.2014.990
Johansen, J.R., La Cognata, S. and Kociolek, J.P. (1994) Examination of type material of Denticula rainierensis Sovereign. In: J.P Kociolek, ed., Proceedings of the 11th International Diatom Symposium. Vol. 17, pp. 211-219.
Krammer, K. and Lange-Bertalot, H. (1988) Bacillariophyceae. 2. Teil: Bacillariaceae, Epithemiaceae, Surirellaceae In: Ettl, H., J. Gerloff, H. Heynig and D. Mollenhauer (eds.) Susswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Band 2/2. Gustav Fisher Verlag, Jena.
Lange-Bertalot, H. and Krammer, K. (1993) Observations on Simonsenia and some small species of Denticula and Nitzschia Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 106: 121-131
Mann, D.G., Trobajo, R., Sato, S., Li, C.L., Witkowski, A., Rimet, F., Ashworth, M.P., Hollands, R.M. and Theriot, E.C. (2021) Ripe for reassessment: A synthesis of available molecular data for the speciose diatom family Bacillariaceae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 158(106985): 1-19.

Publication Link: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106985
Patrick, R.M. and Reimer, C.W. (1966) The Diatoms of the United States exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii, V. 1 Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13
Simonsen, R. (1979) The diatom system: ideas on phylogeny Bacillaria 2: 9-71
Stowe, W.C. (1980) Vertical distribution of epiphytic Denticula subtilis Grun. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 99 (3): 323-328
Van de Vijver, B. and Cocquyt, C. (2009) Four new diatom species from La Calera hot spring in the Peruvian Andes (Colca Canyon). Diatom Research 24: 209–223.
Van de Vijver, B., Kopalová, K., Patrick Kociolek, J. and Ector, L. (2015) Denticula jamesrossensis, a new freshwater diatom (Bacillariophyta) species from the Maritime Antarctic Region. Fottea 15(1): 105-111.

Publication Link: 10.5507/fot.2015.009
Witkowski, A, Kociolek, J.P. and Kurzydlowski, K.J. (2011) Valve ultrastructure of two new genera of marine canal-bearing diatoms (Bacillariophyceae). Phycologia 50(2): 170-181.

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Spaulding, S., Edlund, M. (2008). Denticula. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved January 13, 2026, from https://diatoms.org/genera/denticula

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4 Additional Denticula species

Denticula elegans

Denticula kuetzingii var. rumrichae

Denticula tenuis var. crassula

Denticula valida

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