Coscinodiscus

Coscinodiscus
Scientific classification
(unranked):	SAR
Superphylum:	Heterokonta
Phylum:	Bacillariophyta
Class:	Coscinodiscophyceae
Order:
Family:	Coscinodiscaceae
Genus:	Coscinodiscus; Ehrenberg, 1839
Species
	many, see text

Coscinodiscus is a genus of diatoms in the family Coscinodiscaceae. It is the type genus of its family.

Views of the centric diatom

Light micrographs of a living cell in face view (a) and side view (b); many small discoid chloroplasts are visible. FESEM micrographs of a cleaned single valve, inner view (c) and outer view of a complete theca (d).^[1]

Scale bars: 50 μm.

Species show
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References[]

^ De Tommasi, E., Congestri, R., Dardano, P., De Luca, A.C., Managò, S., Rea, I. and De Stefano, M. (2018) "UV-shielding and wavelength conversion by centric diatom nanopatterned frustules". Nature: Scientific Reports, 8(1): 1–14. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-34651-w. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

External links[]

Data related to Coscinodiscus at Wikispecies
Media related to Coscinodiscus at Wikimedia Commons
Coscinodiscus at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

[DeTommasi2018-1] De Tommasi, E., Congestri, R., Dardano, P., De Luca, A.C., Managò, S., Rea, I. and De Stefano, M. (2018) "UV-shielding and wavelength conversion by centric diatom nanopatterned frustules". Nature: Scientific Reports, 8(1): 1–14. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-34651-w. Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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