Epithemia | Genera - Diatoms of North America

Epithemia Guide

Category

Epithemioid
Class

Bacillariophyceae
Order

Rhopalodiales
Family

Rhopalodiaceae

Type Species

Epithemia turgida (Ehrenberg) Kützing

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding - Dec 2010

Species
Citations & Links

Citations & Links

Citations

Bergey, E.A. (1995) Local effects of a sedentary grazer on stream algae Freshwater Biology 33: 401–409

Publication Link: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.1995.tb00402.x
Blinn, D.W., Truitt R.E. and Pickart, A. (1989) Feeding ecology and radular morphology of the freshwater limpet Ferissia fragilis Journal of the North American Benthological Society 8:237-242
DeYoe, H.R., Lowe, R.L. and Marks, J.C. (1992) Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the endosymbiont load of Rhopalodia gibba and Epithemia turgida (Bacillariophyceae) Journal of Phycology 28: 723–873

Publication Link: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1992.00773.x
Kelly, M.G. (2003) Short term dynamics of diatoms in an upland stream and implications for monitoring eutrophication Environmental Pollution 125:117-122

Publication Link: 10.1016/S0269-7491(03)00075-7
Kociolek, J.P., Williams, D.M., Hamsher, S., Miller, S. and Li, J. (2024) Studies on type material from Kützing’s diatom collection VIII. Species assigned to the genera Epithemia Brébisson ex Kützing and Rhopalodia O. Müller. Diatom Research 39(4): 159-186.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2024.2388108
Kociolek, J. P., Buczkó, K., Greenwood, M., Hamsher, S., Miller, S., and Li, J. (2025) Observations and typification of diatoms of the order Rhopalodiales (Bacillariophyta) in the Josef Pantocsek collection, Hungarian Natural History Museum. I. Epithemia species from Élesd. Diatom Research 1–8.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2025.2480138
Kützing, F.T. (1844) Die kieselschaligen Bacillarien oder Diatomeen. Nordhausen. 152 pp., 30 pls.
Ruck, E.C., Nakov, T., Alverson, A.J. and Theriot, E.C. (2016) Phylogeny, ecology, morphological evolution, and reclassification of the diatom orders Surirellales and Rhopalodiales Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 155–171

Publication Link: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.023
Sims, P.A. (1983) A taxonomic study of the genus Epithemia with special reference to the type species E. turgida (Ehrenb.) Kütz. Bacillaria 6: 211-235
You, Q., Liu, Y., Wang, Y. and Wang, Q. (2009) Taxonomy and distribution of diatoms in the genera Epithemia and Rhopalodia from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China Nova Hedwigia 89:397-430

Publication Link: 10.1127/0029-5035/2009/0089-0397

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Spaulding, S. (2010). Epithemia. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved December 08, 2025, from https://diatoms.org/genera/epithemia

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