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| Skeletonema R.K. Greville 1865, pg. 43 | |
| Generitype | T: Skeletonema costatum Cleve 1873, type cons. |
| Designated by | Greville, R.K.(000982) |
| Year Designated | 1865 |
| Nomenclatural status | nom. cons. |
| Recent revisions | Hasle & Eversen 1976 (ref. 004380), Sims 1994 (ref. 006353) |
| Comments | Type by monotypy. Sometimes misspelled Sceletonema. Skeletonema was established by Greville (1865) for a single species, S. barbadense. Several species of Skeletonema have since then been described, both fossil and living. A proposal to conserve Skeletonema with a new conserved type in order to maintain its use for the group of recent species congeneric with the living species S. costatum (see Ross et al. in Taxon 45:315. 1996) has been recommended by the Committee for Algae (P. Compère, pers. com., 1998). Skeletonemopsis was created by Sims 1994 to accomodate Skeletonema barbadense Greville and other fossil "Skeletonema" species. |
| Published in |
Greville, R.K. 1865 (ref. 982) Descriptions of new and rare Diatoms. Series XVI. Transactions of the Microscopical Society, New Series, London, Vol:13, 43-57, pls V & VI |