CAS Catalogue of Diatom Names

Catalogue of Diatom Names, On-Line Version, Updated 19 Sep 2011

Achnanthidium alteragracillimum Round & Bukhtiyarova 1996, p. 349 ‘altergracillima’
Status		illegitimate
Comments	New name for Microneis gracillima Meister 1912. Superfluous: unwarranted change of epithet
Published in	Round, F.E. and Bukhtiyarova, L. 1996 [ref. 006778]. Four new genera based on Achnanthes (Achnanthidium) together with a re-definition of Achnanthidium. Diatom Research 11(2):345-361.
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Collector		Assessment of record accuracy	likely accurate
List of nomenclatural synonyms	Achnanthes gracillima ‘Meister’ Mills 1933 Achnanthes minutissima f. gracillima (Meister) Cleve-Euler 1932 Microneis gracillima Meister 1912 Achnanthes alteragracillima Lange-Bertalot 1993 Achnanthes microcephala var. gracillima (Meister) Cleve-Euler 1953 Achnanthes minutissima var. gracillima (Meister) Lange-Bertalot in Lange-Bertalot & Krammer 1989 Achnanthidium minutissimum var. gracillima (Meister) Bukhtiyarova 1995 Achnanthidium altergracillima (Lange-Bertalot) Round & Bukhtiyarova 1996 Achnanthidium gracillimum (Meister) Mayama in Kobayasi et al. 2006 Achnanthidium gracillimum (Meister) Lange-Bertalot in Krammer & Lange-Bertalot 2004