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Chaetoceros okamurai  Ikari
Taxonomic Serial No.: 573624

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Chromista  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
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  Current Standing: accepted  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomChromista   
    SubkingdomHarosa   
       InfrakingdomHalvaria   
          SuperdivisionHeterokonta   
             DivisionOchrophyta   
                ClassBacillariophyceae Haeckel – diatoms, diatomées  
                   SubclassCoscinodiscophycidae Round and Crawford  
                      OrderChaetocerotales Round and Crawford  
                         FamilyChaetocerotaceae Ralfs in Pritchard  
                            GenusChaetoceros Ehrenberg  
                               SpeciesChaetoceros okamurai Ikari  
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                                  Variety Chaetoceros okamurai var. okamurai Ikari  
                                  Variety Chaetoceros okamurai var. tetrasetus Ikari  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Hernández-Becerril, David U.  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Morphological study of the marine planktonic diatom Chaetoceros okamurai (Chaetocerotales, Bacillariophyceae) from the Gulf of Mexico   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Phycological Research, vol. 46, no. 1   
  Page(s): 11-15   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1440-1835   
  Notes: DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.1998.tb00091.x   
  Reference for: Chaetoceros okamurai   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Ikari, Jiro  
  Publication Date: 1928   
  Article/Chapter Title: On some Chaetoceras of Japan. II.   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Botanical Magazine, Tokyo, vol. 42, no. 497   
  Page(s): 247-262   
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  Reference for: original description   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Van Landingham, Sam L.  
  Publication Date: 1968   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Catalogue of the Fossil and Recent Genera and Species of Diatoms and their Synonyms Part II. Bacteriastrum through Coscinodiscus   
  Page(s): 494-1086   
  Publisher: Verlag von J. Cramer   
  Publication Place: Lehre, Germany   
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 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: Indo-West Pacific  
    Western Atlantic Ocean  
       
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 Comments
       
  Comment: It may be questionable to be an accepted name. Van Landingham treated it as a synonym of Ch. peruvianus Brightwell. However, Hernández-Becerril (1998) recorded Ch. okamurai from the Gulf of Mexico. But one of the characteristic features he described for this species, 'twisted chains', was not mentioned in the original description by Ikari (1928). In addition, the characteristic of numerous girdle bands or 'costations on the girdle' in some specimens described in the original publication was not observed by Hernández-Becerril. Therefore, Ch. okamurai recorded from the Gulf of Mexico, although distinct enough to be separated from similar taxa in the same region, it remains uncertain whether it is the true Ch. okamurai as originally described by Ikari from Japanese Pacific waters.  
 

 

    

 
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