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Diatoms of North America
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Great Lakes inventory
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Biological Condition Gradient
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Distribution
Western rivers 2004
Southeast rivers 2014
Northeast rivers 2016
Northwest rivers 2015
California coastal rivers 2017
Northeast lake sediments
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Achnanthidium
Achnanthidium rosenstockii
Achnanthidium minutissimum
Amphora
Amphora pediculus
Aneumastus
Aneumastus tusculus
Asterionella
Asterionella formosa
Aulacoseira
Aulacoseira tenella
Aulacoseira nygaardii
Aulacoseira ambigua
Aulacoseira subarctica
Aulacoseira granulata
Aulacoseira nivalis
Aulacoseira italica
Brachysira
Brachysira vitrea
Brachysira brebissonii
Brachysira styriaca
Caloneis
Caloneis silicula
Cavinula
Cavinula pseudoscutiformis
Chamaepinnularia
Chamaepinnularia mediocris
Cocconeis
Cocconeis neodiminuta
Cocconeis czarneckii
Cocconeis placentula
Cymbellafalsa
Cymbellafalsa diluviana
Cymbopleura
Cymbopleura incertiformis
Cymbopleura inaequalis
Delicatophycus
Delicatophycus delicatulus
Denticula
Denticula tenuis
Denticula kuetzingii
Diploneis
Diploneis submarginestriata
Discostella
Discostella pseudostelligera
Discostella stelligera
Encyonema
Encyonema minutum
Encyonema neogracile
Encyonema silesiacum
Encyonema hebridicum
Encyonopsis
Encyonopsis subminuta
Encyonopsis krammeri
Encyonopsis cesatii
Eucocconeis
Eucocconeis flexella
Eunotia
Eunotia exigua
Eunotia incisa
Eunotia faba
Eunotia zasuminensis
Eunotia bilunaris
Fragilaria
Fragilaria vaucheriae
Fragilaria amphicephaloides
Fragilaria crotonensis
Fragilaria tenera
Fragilariforma
Fragilariforma polygonata
Frustulia
Frustulia crassinervia
Gogorevia
Gogorevia exilis
Halamphora
Halamphora thumensis
Karayevia
Karayevia clevei
Kobayasiella
Kobayasiella subtilissima
Lindavia
Lindavia comensis
Lindavia michiganiana
Lindavia ocellata
Lindavia radiosa
Lindavia bodanica
Navicula
Navicula cryptocephala
Navicula leptostriata
Navicula rhynchocephala
Navicula viridula
Navicula radiosa
Navicula vulpina
Navicula oblonga
Neidium
Neidium iridis
Nitzschia
Nitzschia perminuta
Nitzschia palea
Nitzschia fonticola
Pinnularia
Pinnularia subanglica
Pinnularia brauniana
Pinnularia microstauron
Placoneis
Placoneis explanata
Platessa
Platessa conspicua
Psammothidium
Psammothidium sacculus
Pseudostaurosira
Pseudostaurosira microstriata
Pseudostaurosira parasitica
Pseudostaurosira brevistriata
Pulchellophycus
Pulchellophycus schwabei
Rossithidium
Rossithidium pusillum
Sellaphora
Sellaphora saugerresii
Sellaphora nigri
Sellaphora schadei
Sellaphora disjuncta
Sellaphora laevissima
Semiorbis
Semiorbis hemicyclus
Stauroforma
Stauroforma exiguiformis
Stauroneis
Stauroneis anceps
Stauroneis gracilis
Staurosira
Staurosira construens
Staurosira binodis
Staurosira construens var. venter
Staurosirella
Staurosirella pinnata
Staurosirella martyi
Stephanodiscus
Stephanodiscus parvus
Stephanodiscus minutulus
Stephanodiscus hantzschii
Stephanodiscus alpinus
Stephanodiscus medius
Stephanodiscus niagarae
Tabellaria
Tabellaria fenestrata
Tabellaria flocculosa