Diploneis puella (Schumann) Cleve 1894
Publication details
Diploneis puella (Schumann) Cleve 1894: 92
Published in: Cleve, P.T. (1894). Synopsis of the naviculoid diatoms. Part I. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar Series 4 26(2): 1-194, 5 pls.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Diploneis is Diploneis didymus (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Navicula puella Schumann
Type information
Type locality: in flumine Pissa prope Johannisburg, in portu Pillawensi in mari baltico (INA 1996).
Origin of species name
Noun (Latin), a girl (Brown 1946).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Navicula puella Schumann 1867
Schizonema puella (Schumann) Kuntze 1898
Navicula elliptica var. puella (Schumann) M.Peragallo 1903
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Navicula puella A.W.F.Schmidt 1875
Navicula elliptica var. minutissima Grunow 1880
Diploneis splendida var. puella (A.W.F.Schmidt) Cleve 1894
Navicula splendida var. puella (Schmidt) Van Heurck 1896
Diploneis elliptica var. minutissima (Grunow) F.W.Mills 1934
General environment
This is a freshwater species.
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Navicula puella Schumann)
Europe: Slovakia (Hindák & Hindáková 2016).
(as Navicula puella A.W.F.Schmidt)
South-east Asia: Philippines (Martinez-Goss 2021).
(as Navicula elliptica var. minutissima Grunow)
N. America: Laurentian Great Lakes (Stoermer & al. 1999), USA (Kociolek 2005).
(as Diploneis puella (Schumann) Cleve)
Arctic: Svalbard (Spitsbergen) (Skulberg 1996).
Atlantic Islands: Azores (Gonçalves, Marques & Fonseca 2010), Iceland (Hallgrímsson 2007).
Europe: Albania (Somogyi et al. 2013), Baltic Sea (Hällfors 2004), Belgium (Denys 1992), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Hafner & Dedic 2022), Britain (Hendey 1954, Hendey 1974), Britain & Ireland (Hartley 1986, Whitton & al. 2003), France (Germain 1981, OFB & MNHN 2003), Germany (Reichardt 1984, Ludwig & Schnittler 1996, Mauch & Schmedtje 2003, Stutz & Mattern & al. 2018, Hofmann & al. 2018, Täuscher 2022), Greece (Krieger 1944), Hungary (Németh 2005), Ireland (Wolnik & Carter 2014), Netherlands (Poulin & al. 1982, Veen & al. 2015, Mertens), Poland (Plinski & Witkowski 2020), Romania (Caraus 2017), Saxony (Germany) (Doege & al. 2022), Scandinavia (Karlason & al. 2018), Slovakia (Hindák & Hindáková 2016), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982, Aboal 1988, Aboal 1989, Aboal 1989, Aboal, Marín & Zafra 2003, Ros, Marín-Murcia & Aboal 2009), Switzerland (Meister 1912).
N. America: Alaska (AK) (Foged 1981), Alberta (AB) (Skibbe & al. 2022), Arizona (Czarnecki, Blinn & Penton 1981), Arkansas (Smith 2010), Gulf of Mexico (Krayesky & al. 2009), Laurentian Great Lakes (Stoermer & al. 1999, Reavie 2022), Mexico (Caribbean) (Licea, Moreno-Ruiz & Luna 2016), Mississippi (Sullivan 1981), North Carolina (Whitford & Schumacher 1969), Northwest Territories (NT) (Sheath & Steinman 1982), NW USA (Bahls 2009), Ontario (ON) (Duthie & Socha 1976), Québec (QC) (Poulin & al. 1995), Texas (Eberle 1982), USA (Patrick & Reimer 1966, Potapova & Charles 2003, Kociolek 2005, Eberle 2008).
Caribbean Islands: Jamaica (Podzorski 1985).
S. America: Argentina (Vouilloud 2003, Rodriguez et al. 2006), Brazil (Taques & al. 2024), Paraguay (Rosset & al. 2020).
Africa: Mozambique (Cholnoky 1952), Niger (Compère 1980).
Middle East: Iran (Ali & al. 2025), Iraq (Maulood & al. 2013, Maulood & al. 2013), Israel (Barinova, Yeuda & Nevo 2010, Barinova & Smith 2022), Turkey (Aysel 2005, Taskin (ed.) & al. 2019).
South-west Asia: India (Gupta & Das 2020), Khandesh (Jaiswal 2017).
South-east Asia: Myanmar (Burma) (Skuja 1949), Philippines (Martinez-Goss 2021), Singapore (Pham & al. 2011).
Asia: Afghanistan (Çelekli & Mohammadi 2024), China (Hu & Wei 2006, Liu 2008, Li & Qi 2010, Cheng & Gao 2013), Korea (Lee, Choi & Lee 1995), Mongolia (Edlund & al. 2001), Russia (Far East) (Medvedeva & Nikulina 2014).
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Sarma & Chapman 1975, Harper & al. 2012).
(as Diploneis splendida var. puella (A.W.F.Schmidt) Cleve)
N. America: North Carolina (Hustedt 1955).
Asia: China (Liu 2008, Cheng & Gao 2013).
Key references
Aboal, M., Álvarez Cobelas, M., Cambra, J. & Ector, L. (2003). Floristic list of non-marine diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) of Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands. Updated taxonomy and bibliography. Diatom Monographs 4: 1-639.
Eberle, M.E. (2008). Recent diatoms reported from the central United States: register of taxa and synonyms. Hays, Kansas: Department of Biological Sciences, Fort Hays State University. Latest electronic version: 5 December 2008.
Hu, H. & Wei, Y. (2006). The freshwater algae of China. Systematics, taxonomy and ecology. pp. [4 pls of 16 figs], [i-iv], i-xv, 1-1023. China: www.sciencep.com.
Hustedt, F. (1930). Bacillariophyta (Diatomeae) Zweite Auflage. In: Die Süsswasser-Flora Mitteleuropas. Heft 10. (Pascher, A. Eds), pp. [i]–viii, [1]–466. Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer.
Krammer, K. & Lange-Bertalot, H. (1986). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Bacillariophyceae: Naviculaceae. Vol. 2/1 pp. xvi, 876, 2976 figures, 206 plates. Stuttgart & New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag.
Patrick, R.[M.] & Reimer, C.W. (1966). The diatoms of the United States exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii. Volume 1: Fragilariaceae, Eunotiaceae, Achnanthaceae, Naviculaceae. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 1-688.
Plinski, M. & Witkowski, A. (2020). Diatoms from the Gulf of Gdansk and surrounding waters (the southern Baltic Sea). A key to the identification of the species. pp. [1]-442, incl. 31 SEM pls, 16 photo pls. Gdansk: Gdansk University Press.
Podzorski, A.C. (1985). An illustrated and annotated check-list of diatoms from the Black River Waterways, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. Bibliotheca Diatomologica 7: [1]–177, incl. 44 plates.
Reavie, E.D. (2022). Symmetric biraphid diatoms (largely non-Navicula) from the Laurentian Great Lakes. Diatom Research 37(4): 351-409.
Whitford, L.A. & Schumacher, G.J. (1969). A manual of the freshwater algae in North Carolina. Technical Bulletin of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station 188: 1–313.
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