Gomphonema cuneatum (Lyngbye) Brébisson 1838

Publication Details
Gomphonema cuneatum (Lyngbye) Brébisson 1838: 15

Published in: Brébisson, [L.] A. de (1838). Considerations sur les diatomées et essai d'une classification des genres et des espèces appartenant à cette famille, par A. de Brébisson, auteur de la Flore de Normandie, etc.. pp. [i], [1]-20 [error pages bound?]. Falaise & Paris: Brée l'Ainée Imprimeur-Libraire; Meilhac.

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Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Gomphonema is Gomphonema acuminatum Ehrenberg.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Licmophora cuneata (Lyngbye) Guiry.

Source of Synonymy
Guiry, M.D. (2022). Licmophora cuneata (Lyngbye) comb. nov. is the correct name for Licmophora lyngbyei (Kützing) Grunow ≡ Frustulia lyngbyei Kützing, nom. illeg. (Licmophoraceae, Bacillariophyta). Notulae Algarum 266: 1-3, 2 figs.

Basionym
Echinella cuneata Lyngbye

Type Information
Type locality: "in sinu Othiniensi Ceramio rubro insidens" [Odense Fjord, Denmark, on Ceramium rubrum]; (Lyngbye 1819: 211)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), wedge-shaped (Brown 1946).

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 26 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 08 November 2022

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