Fragilaria

Category

Araphid
Class

Fragilariophyceae
Order

Fragilariales
Family

Fragilariaceae

Type Species

Fragiliaria pectinalis (O. Müller) Lyngbye

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding, Mark Edlund - Dec 2008
Reviewer

Sam Rushforth - May 2010

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36 Additional Fragilaria species

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Alexson, E.E., Reavie, E.D., Van de Vijver, B., Wetzel, C., Ector, L., Wellard Kelly, H.A., Aliff, M.N. and Estepp, L.R. (2022) Revision of the needle-shaped Fragilaria species (Fragilariaceae, Bacillariophyta) in the Laurentian Great Lakes (United States of America, Canada) Journal of Great Lakes Research

Publication Link: 10.1016/j.jglr.2022.04.006
Almeida, P.D., Morales, E.A., Wetzel, C.E., Ector, L. and Bicudo, D.C. (2016) Two new diatoms in the genus Fragilaria Lyngbye (Fragilariophyceae) from tropical reservoirs in Brazil and comparison with type material of F. tenera Phytotaxa 246 (3): 163–183

Publication Link: 10.11646/phytotaxa.246.3.1
Heudre, D., Wetzel, C.E., Moreau, L., Van de Vijver, B. and Ector, L. (2019) On the identity of the rare Fragilaria subconstricta (Fragilariaceae), with Fragilaria speciesforming ribbon-like colonies shortly reconsidered. Plant Ecology and Evolution 152: 327–339.

Publication Link: 10.5091/plecevo.2019.1619
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.
Krammer, K. and Lange-Bertalot, H. (1991) Bacillariophyceae. 3. Teil: Centrales, Fragilariaceae, Eunotiaceae In Ettl, H., Gerloff, J., Heynig, H. & Mollenhauer, D. (Eds.). Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa. 2(3): 1-576. Gustav Fisher Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.
Lange-Bertalot, H. and Ulrich, S. (2014) Contributions to the taxonomy of needle-shaped Fragilaria and Ulnaria species Lauterbornia 78: 1-73.
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
Silva, P. and Hasle, G.R. (2006) Taxonomic and nomenclatural history of Fragilaria (Bacillariophyceae). Taxon 55: 200-202.
Tuji, A. (2004) Type examination of the ribbon-forming Fragilaria capucina complex described by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg In: Poulin, M. (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Diatom Symposium. Ottawa, Canada, 25th-31st August 2002, Biopress Limited, Bristol, pp. 411-422.
Tuji, A. (2007) Type examination of Fragilaria gracilis Østrup (Bacillariophyceae). Bulletin of the national museum of nature and science, Series B, Botany 33: 9-12.
Tuji, A. and Williams, D.M. (2006) Examination of the type material of Synedra rumpens-Fragilaria rumpens, Bacillariophyceae. Phycological Research 54: 99-103.
Tuji, A. and Williams, D.M. (2006) Examination of types in the Fragilaria pectinalis-capitellata species comples In: Likhoshway, Y. (ed.) Nineteenth International Diatom Symposium, pp. 125-139, Listvyanka Russia, Biopress Limited.
Tuji, A. and Williams, D.M. (2006) Typification of Conferva pectinalis O. F. Müll. (Bacillariophyceae) and the identity of the type of an alleged synonym, Fragilaria capucina Desm. Taxon 55(1): 193–199
Tuji, A. and Williams, D.M. (2008) Examination of type material of Fragilaria mesolepta Rabenhorst and two similar, but distinct, taxa Diatom Research, 23(2): 503-510.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2008.9705772
Tuji, A. and Williams, D.M. (2013) Examination of types in the Fragilaria vaucheriae-intermedia species complex. Bulletin of the national museum of nature and science Series B, Botany, 39: 1-9.
Tuji, A. and Williams, D.M. (2019) Re-typification of Fragilaria subconstricta and F. tenuistriata, and a correction for Tuji & Williams (2008, Diat. Res. 23: 503-510), Diatom Research 34(4): 271-272.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2019.1701091
Van de Vijver, B., Williams, D.M., Schuster, T.M., Kusber, W-H, Cantonati, M., Wetzel, C.E. and Ector, L. (2022) Analysis of the Fragilaria rumpens complex (Fragilariaceae, Bacillariophyta) with the description of two new species. Fottea, Olomouc 22(1): 93–121.

Publication Link: 10.5507/fot.2021.018
Wallace, J. (1960) New and variable diatoms. Notulae Naturae 331: 1-8
Wetzel, C.E., Potapova, M. and Williams, D.M. (2022) Synedra phantasma M.H.Hohn (Bacillariophyta, Fragilariaceae) from the Amazon river (South America): its typification and transfer to the genus Fragilaria Notulae Algarum 252: (24 August 2022)

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Spaulding, S., Edlund, M. (2008). Fragilaria. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved March 28, 2023, from https://diatoms.org/genera/fragilaria

Displaying 9 of 9 species

36 Additional Fragilaria species

Fragilaria alpestris

Fragilaria amphicephala

Fragilaria atomus

Fragilaria austriaca

Fragilaria brevistriata var. trigona

Fragilaria capensis

Fragilaria capucina

Fragilaria capucina var. fragilarioides

Fragilaria construens var. javanica

Fragilaria crotonensis var. oregona

Fragilaria dilatata

Fragilaria distans

Fragilaria fonticola

Fragilaria gracilis

Fragilaria gracilis

Fragilaria gracilis

Fragilaria gracillima

Fragilaria grunowii

Fragilaria inflata

Fragilaria longifusiformis

Fragilaria microvaucheriae

Fragilaria neoproducta

Fragilaria nitzschioides

Fragilaria pararumpens

Fragilaria pectinalis

Fragilaria perminuta

Fragilaria pinnata var. acuminata

Fragilaria radians

Fragilaria rhabdosoma

Fragilaria rumpens

Fragilaria sepes

Fragilaria subconstricta

Fragilaria utermoehlii

Fragilaria vaucheriae var. capitellata

Fragilaria virescens fo. clavata

Fragilaria zeilleri var. elliptica

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