Diploneis didymus (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg 1845

Publication Details
Diploneis didymus (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg 1845: 144 (as 'didyma')

Published in: Ehrenberg, C.G. (1845). Vorläufige zweite Mittheilung über die weitere Erkenntnifs der Beziehungen des kleinsten organischen Lebens zu den vulkanischen Massen der Erde. I. Über die vulkanischen Infusorien-Tuffe (Pyrobiolithen) am Rhein. II. Über einen bedeutenden Infusiorien haltenden vulkanischen Aschen-Tuff (Pyrobiolith) auf der Insel Ascension. III. Über einen See-Infusioren haltenden weissen vulkanische Aschen-Tuff (Pyrobiolith) als sehr grosse Gebirgsmasse in Patagonien. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1845: 133-157.

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Type Species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Diploneis.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Pinnularia didymus Ehrenberg

Type Information
no loc. given; (INA 1996)

General Environment
This is a freshwatermarine species.

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 10 October 2022

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Nomenclatural note
Epithet (frequently cited as "didyma") is a substantive (didymos, Gr. testicle; didymus, Latin) and thus not declinable. - (12 January 2011) - G.M. Guiry

Habitat note
Living also in brackish water - (31 January 2017) - Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 10 October 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 02 April 2025