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Bacillariophyceae
Sign in to saveBacillariophyceae is a class of diatoms. Previously, this class was equivalent to Diatomeae, the taxonomic name for all diatoms. However, due to both the known and estimated diversity of diatoms, since 2019 they have been expanded to several classes. In particular, Bacillariophyceae was given the following modified diagnosis:
Species
diatoms
CLASS
- KingdomChromista
- PhylumOchrophyta
- ClassBacillariophyceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20,140
- With media
- 2,441
- Collections
- SDNHM, NY, UCMP, YPM
- Recorded in
- United States, France, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Algeria
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- Diatoms through the microscope.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Bacillariophyceae
- taxon name
- Bacillariophyceae
- taxon rank
- class
- taxon common name
- 珪藻綱
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
- Commons category
- Bacillariophyceae
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Bacillariophyceae is a class of diatoms. Previously, this class was equivalent to Diatomeae, the taxonomic name for all diatoms. However, due to both the known and estimated diversity of diatoms, since 2019 they have been expanded to several classes. In particular, Bacillariophyceae was given the following modified diagnosis:
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bacillariophyceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.