Rhopalodia

Category

Epithemioid
Class

Bacillariophyceae
Order

Rhopalodiales
Family

Rhopalodiaceae

Type Species

Rhopalodia gibba (Ehrenb.) O. Müller

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding, Ditmar Metzeltin - Mar 2011

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Drum, R. and Pankratz, S. (1964) Fine structure of an unusual cytoplasmic inclusion in the diatom genus Rhopalodia Protoplasma 60 (1): 141-149

Publication Link: 10.1007/BF01248136
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
Kneip, C., Voss, C., Lockhart, P.J. and Maier, U.G. (2008) The cyanobacterial endosymbiont of the unicellular algae Rhopalodia gibba shows reductive genome evolution Evolutionary Biology 8:30

Publication Link: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-30
Krammer, K. (1988) The gibberula-group in the genus Rhopalodia O. Müller (Bacillariophyceae). II: Revision of the group and new taxa Nova Hedwigia 47 (1-2): 159-205
Li, K., Zhou, Y., Chang, A.C.G., Amaral, M.W.W., Keepers, K.G., Nan, F., Liu, X., Wang, J., Xie, S., Kociolek, J.P. and Liu, Q. (2025) Morphology, phylogeny, and organelle genomics of three new Rhopalodia species (Rhopalodiales, Bacillariophyceae). Journal of Phycology

Publication Link: 10.1111/jpy.70114
Müller, O. (1895) Rhopalodia ein neues Genus der Bacillariaceen (Engler's) Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte, und Pflanzengeographie, Leipzig, 22: 54-71
Prechtl, J., Kneip, C. Lockhart, P., Wenderoth, K. and Maier, U.G. (2004) Intracellular spheroid bodies of Rhopalodia gibba have nitrogen-fixing apparatus of cyanobacterial origin Molecular Biology and Evolution 21(8): 1477-1481

Publication Link: 10.1093/molbev/msh086
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., Metzeltin, D. (2011). Rhopalodia. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved May 01, 2026, from https://diatoms.org/genera/rhopalodia?x-craft-preview=409442409a997390693ff24c7010fd6f1c96fb56f8f091fa016a63de9a54aaccecpiqubknd

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9 Additional Rhopalodia species

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9 Additional Rhopalodia species

Rhopalodia acuminata

Rhopalodia brebissonii

Rhopalodia constricta

Rhopalodia gibba var. minuta

Rhopalodia gibba var. ventricosa

Rhopalodia gibberula var. vanheurckii

Rhopalodia operculata

Rhopalodia parallela

Rhopalodia rupestris

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