Fallacia | Genera - Diatoms of North America

Fallacia2 Guide

Category

Symmetric Biraphid
Class

Bacillariophyceae
Order

Naviculales
Family

Sellaphoraceae

Type Species

Fallacia pygmaea (Kütz.) Stickle and D.G.Mann in Round, Crawford and D.G.Mann

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding, Mark Edlund, Ditmar Metzeltin - Dec 2008
Reviewer

Sam Rushforth - May 2010

Species
Citations & Links
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Citations & Links

Citations

Genkal, S.I. and Yarushina, M.I. (2017) The species of the genus Fallacia A.J. Stickle & D.G. Mann (Bacillariophyta) in Russia: morphology, taxonomy, ecology and distribution. International Journal on Algae 19: 99–110.

Publication Link: 10.1615/InterJAlgae.v19.i2.10
Hustedt, F. (1930) Die Kieselalgen Deutschlands, Osterreichs und der Schweiz mit Berucksichtigung der ubrigen Lander Europas sowie der angrenzenden Meersgebiete. In: Dr. L. Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz. Leipzig, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest und Portig K.-G. Vol. 7, Part 3, pp. 557-816.
Le Cohu, R. and Azémar, F. (2010) Les genres Adlafia, Kobayasiella, Fallacia, Microstatus et Naviculadicta (Bacillariophycées) recensés dans quelques lacs des Pyrénées françaises. Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse 146: 5-13
Li, Y., Suzuki, H., Nagumo, T. and Tanaka, J. (2014) Auxosporulation, morphology of vegetative cells and perizonium of Fallacia tenera (Hust.) D.G. Mann (Bacillariophyceae) Phytotaxa 164 (4): 239–254

Publication Link: 10.11646/phytotaxa.164.4.3
Li, Y., Suzuki, H., Nagumo, T., Tanaka, J., Sun, Z. and Xu, K. (2015) Fallacia decussata sp. nov.: a new marine benthic diatom (Bacillariophyceae) from Northeast Asia. Phytotaxa 224: 258-266.

Publication Link: 10.11646/phytotaxa.224.3.4
Li, Y., Suzuki, H., Nagumo, T., Tanaka, J., Sun, Z. and Xu, K. (2022) Morphology, molecular phylogeny and systematics of the diatom genus Fallacia (Sellaphoraceae), with descriptions of three new species Journal of Phycology 58: 449-464.

Publication Link: 10.1111/jpy.13246
Liu, Y., Kociolek, J.P., Fan, Y. and Wang, Q. (2012) Pseudofallacia gen. nov., a new freshwater diatom (Bacillariophyceae) genus based on Navicula occulta Krasske Phycologia 51(6): 620–626
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
Round, F.E., Crawford, R.M. and Mann, D.G. (1990) The Diatoms. Biology and Morphology of the Genera. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 747 pp.
Sabbe, K., Vyverman, W. and Muylaert, K. (1999) New and little-known Fallacia species (Bacillariophyta) from brackish and marine intertidal sandy sediments in Northwest Europe and North America. Phycologia 38(1): 8-22
Stancheva, R. and Manoylov, K.M. (2018) Fallacia californica sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta), a new freshwater diatom species from streams in California, USA Phytotaxa 345 (2): 104–118

Publication Link: 10.11646/phytotaxa.345.2.2
Van De Vijver, B. and Cox, E.J. (2015) Fallacia emmae sp. nov., (Bacillariophyta) a new soil-inhabiting diatom species from the Sub-Antarctic Region. Cryptogamie, Algologie 36: 245–254.

Publication Link: 10.7872/crya/v36.iss3.2015.245
Witkowski, A. (1991) Fallacia cassubiae sp. nov., a new brackish-water diatom from the Puck Bay (Southern Baltic Sea), Poland. Diatom Research 6: 401-409.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.1991.9705184
Witkowski, A. (1993) Fallacia florinae (Moeller) comb. nov., a marine, epipsammic diatom Diatom Research 8 (1): 215-219

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Updates

Mar 25, 2013 - Circumstription of genus

The genus Pseudofallacia was established (Lui et al. 2012), resulting in a more narrow circumscription to Fallacia. Images of specimens that align with Pseudofallacia were removed from the genus page for Fallacia. - S. Spaulding

Cite This Page

Spaulding, S., Edlund, M., Metzeltin, D. (2008). Fallacia. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved May 01, 2026, from https://diatoms.org/genera/fallacia?x-craft-preview=409442409a997390693ff24c7010fd6f1c96fb56f8f091fa016a63de9a54aaccecpiqubknd