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Diatom Image Database

Welcome to the Diatom Image Database! The Periphyton Group at Florida International University created and maintains the Diatom Image Database, which includes over 980 diatom taxa found in the greater Everglades region of south Florida. Please send questions or comments about the Diatom Image Database to Franco Tobias .

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Fragilaria vaucheriae


Authority:
(Kutzing) Petersen
Year:
1833
References:
Patric R. & Ch.W. Reimer (1966):"The diatoms of the United States", Vol.1, p.120,121; Pl.3, fig.14,15; Podzorski A.C. (1985): "An illustrated and annotatet chack-list of diatoms from the Black River Waterways, St. Elizabet, Jamaica", PL. 1, fig.13;
Synonyms:
Exilaria vaucheriae (Kutzing 1833), Fragilaria intermedia (Grunow in Van Heurck 1881), Synedra vaucheriae ((Kutzing) Kutzing 1844), Synedra vaucheriae var. parvula ((Kutzing) Rabenhorst 1864), Synedra vaucheriae var. distans (Grunow in Van Heurck 1881)
Ecological Preference:
Brackish
Projects:
  • Southeast Florida Coastal Mangroves


    • Sample localities:
  • Coastal Mangroves