Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Heterokonta > Phylum Ochrophyta > Subphylum Khakista > Class Bacillariophyceae > Subclass Coscinodiscophycidae > Superorder Thalassiosiranae > Order Thalassiosirales > Family Skeletonemaceae

Skeletonema Greville, 1865

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Skeletonema costatum (Greville) Cleve, 1873
Skeletonema dohrnii Sarno & Kooistra, 2005
Skeletonema grethae Zingone & Sarno, 2005
Skeletonema japonicum Zingone & Sarno, 2005
Skeletonema marinoi Sarno & Zingone, 2005
Skeletonema menzelii Guillard, Carpenter & Reimann, 1974
Skeletonema potamos (Weber) Hasle, 1976
Skeletonema pseudocostatum L.K.Medlin, 1991
Skeletonema subsalsum (Cleve-Euler) Bethge, 1928
Skeletonema tropicum Cleve, 1900

Literature

basis of record	Round, F.E.; Crawford, R.M.; Mann, D.G. (1990). The diatoms: biology and morphology of the genera. Cambridge University Press: London, UK. ISBN 0-521-363187. 747 pp.
additional source	Hällfors, G. (2004). Checklist of Baltic Sea Phytoplankton Species (including some heterotrophic protistan groups). Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings No. 95: 210 pp.
additional source	Tomas, C.R. (Ed.) (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp.
additional source	Algaebase

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

External Links

GenBank
GBIF

Citation

Guiry, Michael D. (2014). Skeletonema Greville, 1865. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2014). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149073