Higher Classification: > Kingdom Chromista > Subkingdom Harosa > Infrakingdom Heterokonta > Phylum Ochrophyta > Subphylum Khakista > Class Bacillariophyceae > Subclass Fragilariophycidae > Superorder Fragilariophycanae > Order Licmophorales > Family Licmophoraceae

Licmophora C.Agardh, 1827

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Exilaria*	Greville, 1827	synonym

Children

Licmophora abbreviata C.Agardh, 1831
Licmophora communis (Heiberg) Grunow, 1881
Licmophora debilis (Kützing) Grunow ex Van Heurck, 1881
Licmophora ehrenbergii (Kützing) Grunow, 1867
Licmophora flabellata (Grev.)C.Agardh, 1831
Licmophora gracilis (Ehrenberg) Grunow, 1867
Licmophora juergensii C.Agardh, 1831
Licmophora lyngbyei (Kützing) Grunow ex Van Heurck, 1867
Licmophora oedipus (Kützing) Grunow, 1881
Licmophora paradoxa (Lyngbye) C.Agardh, 1828

Literature

basis of record	Algaebase
additional source	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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Published in AlgaeBase

External Links

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Citation

Guiry, Michael D. (2014). Licmophora C.Agardh, 1827. 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:149342