Sublittoral zone of Sardinia
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List of marine benthic diatoms from Sardinia

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When a taxus displays one or some characters differing from those given in diagnoses, the name is followed by a question mark.

When the generic name of a taxus is followed by “sp.”, this means that I was unable to propose a specific name.

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Achnanthes brevipes C.A. Agardh
Achnanthes brockmannii Simonsen
Achnanthidium danica (Flögel) Grunow
Achnanthes sp. (parvula Kützing ?)
Achnanthes sp. aff. brockmannii Simonsen
Achnanthes sp. cf. brockmannii Simonsen
Amphiprora decussata Grunow
Amphiprora sulcata O’Meara
 
Amphora acutiuscula Kützing / Halamphora acutiuscula (Kützing) Levkov
Amphora angusta Gregory
Amphora arenaria Donkin
Amphora bigibba var. interrupta Grunow
Amphora cingulata Cleve
Amphora coffeaeformis (Agardh) Kützing / Halamphora coffeaeformis (Agardh) Levkov
Amphora crassa Gregory
Amphora cymbaphora Cholnoky
Amphora decussata Grunow
Amphora laevissima Gregory
Amphora marina W. Smith
Amphora obtusa Gregory
Amphora ostrearia Brebisson ex Kützing
Amphora ostrearia var. belgica Grunow
Amphora proteus Gregory
Ampora pseudohyalina Simonsen
Amphora sp. aff. flebilis Simonsen
Amphora sp. aff. praelata Hendey
Amphora sp. cf. coffeaeformis (Agardh) Kützing
Amphora sp. cf. graeffeana Hendey
Amphora sp.: 6 taxa
Amphora spectabilis Gregory
Amphora strigosa Hustedt
Amphora subholsatica Krammer / Halamphora subholsatica (Krammer) Levkov
Amphora wisei (Salah) Simonsen
 
Anorthoneis sp.
Ardissonia crystallina (C.A. Agardh) Grunow
Ardissonia fulgens var. mediterranea Grunow
Ardissonia sp. ?
Bacillaria socialis var. massilensis Grunow
Biremis ambigua (Cleve) D.G. Mann
Biremis sp.
Caloneis linearis (Grunow) Boyer
Caloneis sp.
Campylodiscus decorus Brebisson
Campylodiscus samoensis Grunow
Catenula sp. 4
Climacosphaenia moniligera Ehrenberg
Cocconeiopsis pseudoorthoneoides (Foged) Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin
 
Cocconeis britannica Naegeli in Kützing
Cocconeis clandestina A. Schmidt
Cocconeis dirupta Gregory var. dirupta
Cocconeis dirupta var. flexella (Janisch & Rabenhorst) Grunow
Cocconeis discrepans A. Schmidt
Cocconeis disculoides Hustedt ?
Cocconeis guttata Hustedt in Aleem & Hustedt
Cocconeis molesta Kützing var. molesta
Cocconeis nummularia (Greville) Peragallo
Cocconeis peltoides Hustedt
Cocconeis pinnata Gregory ex Greville
Cocconeis scutellum Ehrenberg
Cocconeis scutellum var. minutissima Grunow
Cocconeis scutellum var. parva Grunow
Cocconeis sp. cf. disculus (Schumann) Cleve
Cocconeis sp. cf. pelta A. Schmidt
Cocconeis sp. cf. peltoides Hustedt
Cocconeis sp. cf. pseudomarginata Gregory
Cocconeis sp.: 7 taxa
Cocconeis speciosa Gregory
Cocconeis vitrea Brun
 
Cymatosira lorenziana Grunow
Dephineis sp. ?
Dimeregramma minor (Gregory) Ralfs var. minor
Dimeregramma sp.
 
Diploneis bombus Ehrenberg
Diploneis chersonensis (Grunow) Cleve
Diploneis coffeaeformis (Grunow) Cleve
Diploneis crabro Ehrenberg
Diploneis crabro var. excavata Hustedt
Diploneis crabro f. suspecta (A. Schmidt) Hustedt ?
Diploneis fusca (Gregory) Cleve
Diploneis incurvata (Gregory) Cleve
Diploneis interrupta (Kützing) Cleve
Diploneis litoralis var. clathrata (Östrup) Cleve
Diploneis nitescens Gregory
Diploneis papula (A. Schmidt) Cleve
Diploneis smithii (Brebisson) Cleve
Diploneis sp.
Diploneis suborbicularis (Gregory) Cleve
Diploneis suborbicularis var. constricta Hustedt
Diploneis vacillans (A. Schmidt) Cleve ?
Diploneis vetula (A. Schmidt) Cleve
Diploneis weisflogii (A. Schmidt) Cleve
 
Eunotogramma sp. ?
Fallacia forcipata (Greville) Stickle & D.G. Mann in Round et al.
Fallacia nummularia (Greville) D.G. Mann in Round et al
Fallacia sp. cf. diploneoides (Hustedt) D.G. Mann in Round et al.
Fallacia sp.
Fogedia finmarchica (Cleve & Grunow) Witkowski, Metzeltin & Lange-Bertalot
Glyphodesmis distans (Gregory) Grunow in Van Heurck
Grammatophora angulosa Ehrenberg
Grammatophora hamulifera Kützing
Grammatophora oceanica (Ehrenberg) Grunow
Gyrosigma balticum (Ehrenberg) Rabenhorst ?
Gyrosigma lineare Grunow
Haslea britannica (Hustedt) Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin
Hyalosynedra laevigata (Grunow) Williams & Round
 
Licmophora dalmatica (Kützing) Grunow
Licmophora ehrenbergii (Kützing) Grunow
Licmophora ehrenbergii var. ovata (W. Smith)Peragallo
Licmophora gracilis (Ehrenberg) Grunow
Licmophora nubecula (Kützing) Grunow
Licmophora paradoxa (Lyngbye) Agardh
 
Licmosphenia clevei Mereschkowsky
 
Lyrella abrupta (Gregory) D.G. Mann in Round et al.
Lyrella clavata (Gregory) D.G. Mann in Round et al.
Lyrella clavata var. cariboea A. Schmidt
Lyrella diffluens (A. Schmidt) D.G. Mann in Round et al.
Lyrella lyra (Ehrenberg) Karayeva
Lyrella majuscula (Hustedt) Witkowski ?
Lyrella sp.
Lyrella sp. cf. barbara (Heiden in Heiden & Kolbe) D.G. Mann in Round et al.
Lyrella sp. cf. spectabilis (Gregory) D.G. Mann in Round et al.
 
Mastogloia acutiuscula var. elliptica Hustedt
Mastogloia adriatica Voigt
Mastogloia affinis Cleve
Mastogloia angulata Lewis
Mastogloia apiculata W. Smith
Mastogloia asperuloides Hustedt
Mastogloia binotata (Grunow) Cleve
Mastogloia braunii Grunow
Mastogloia corsicana Grunow
Mastogloia crucicula (Grunow) Cleve
Mastogloia crucicula var. alternans Zanon
Mastogloia cuneata (Meister) Simonsen
Mastogloia decipiens Hustedt
Mastogloia emarginata Hustedt
Mastogloia erythraea Grunow
Mastogloia exilis Hustedt
Mastogloia fimbriata (Brightwell) Cleve
Mastogloia foliolum Brun
Mastogloia graciloides Hustedt
Mastogloia horvathiana Grunow
Mastogloia ignorata Hustedt
Mastogloia labuensis var. lanceolata Hustedt
Mastogloia lanceolata Thwaites
Mastogloia linearis Simonsen
Mastogloia mauritiana Brun
Mastogloia mediterranea Hustedt
Mastogloia ovalis A. Schmidt
Mastogloia ovata Grunow
Mastogloia ovulum Hustedt
Mastogloia ovum paschale (A. Schmidt) Mann
Mastogloia paradoxa Grunow
Mastogloia peragalli Cleve
Mastogloia pisciculus Cleve
Mastogloia punctatissima (Greville) Ricard
Mastogloia punctifera Brun
Mastogloia pusilla Grunow
Mastogloia pusilla var. linearis Östrup
Mastogloia pusilla var. subcapitata Hustedt
Mastogloia robusta Hustedt
Mastogloia smithii Thwaites
Mastogloia sp.: 1 taxa
 Mastogloia subaffirmata Hustedt
Mastogloia umbra Paddock & Kemp
Mastogloia varians Hustedt
Mastogloia vasta Hustedt
 
Navicula (? Cocconeiopsis) archibaldiana Foged ?
Navicula bipustulata A. Mann
Navicula arenaria var. rostellata Lange-Bertalot
Navicula besarensis Giffen
Navicula cancellata Donkin
Navicula crucifera Grunow in A. Schmidt
Navicula directa (W. Smith) Ralfs in Pritchard ?
Navicula halinae Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin ?
Navicula hamiltonii Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin
Navicula johanrossii Giffen
Navicula lusoria Giffen
Navicula microdigitoradiata Lange-Bertalot
Navicula normaloides Cholnoky
Navicula palpebralis var. angulosa (Gregory) Van Heurck
Navicula palpebralis Brebisson ex W. Smith var. palpebralis
Navicula pennata A. Schmidt
Navicula salinarum Grunow in Cleve & Grunow ?
Navicula salinicola Hustedt ?
Navicula sp. : 9 taxa
Navicula veneta Kützing
Navicula zostereti Grunow
 
Nitzschia aequorea Hustedt
Nitzschia angularis var. affinis Grunow
Nitzschia brevissima Grunow in Van heurck
Nitzschia constricta (Kützing) Ralfs ?
Nitzschia distans Gregory ?
Nitzschia fluminensis Grunow
Nitzschia fontifuga Cholnoky ?
Nitzschia liebetruthii Rabenhorst ?
Nitzschia linkei Hustedt ?
Nitzschia littorea Grunow in Van heurck
Nitzschia longissima (Brebisson ex Kützing) Ralfs in Pritchard
Nitzschia marginulata var. didyma grunow
Nitzschia miserabilis Cholnoky ?
Nitzschia normannii  Grunow in Van Heurck
Nitzschia panduriformis Gregory
Nitzschia panduriformis var. continua Grunow in Cleve & Grunow
Nitzschia pellucida Grunow in Cleve & Grunow
Nitzschia persuadens Cholnoky
Nitzschia pusilla Grunow?
Nitzschia ruda Cholnoky
Nitzschia scalpelliformis (Grunow in Cleve & Möller) Grunow in Cleve & Grunow
Nitzschia sigma (Kützing) W. Smith
Nitzschia spathulata Brebisson in W. Smith
Nitzschia spathulata var. hyalina Gregory
Nitzschia sp. cf. spathulata Brebisson  in W. Smith
Nitzschia sp.: 9 taxa
 
Plagiotropis lepidoptera var. lepidoptera (Gregory) Kuntze
Plagiotropis lepidoptera var. minor (Cleve) Czarnecki & Wee
Planothidium lilljeborgei (Grunow) Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin
Pleurosigma intermedium W. Smith
Podocystis americana Bailey
Psammodiscus nitidus (Gregory) Round & Mann
Rhoicosigma sp. ?
Rhopalodia acuminata Krammer
Stauroneis dubitabilis Hustedt
Staurophora amphioxys (Stauroneis gregorii Ralfs) (Gregory) D.G. Mann
Staurophora (Stauroneis) salina (W. Smith) Mereschkowsky
Surirella fastuosa (Ehrenberg) Kützing
Surirella sp. cf. fastuosa (Ehrenberg) Kützing
Synedra gaillonii (Bory) Ehrenberg
Synedra tabulata (C.A. Agardh) Kützing
Tabularia ktenoeoides Kuylensternia in Snoejis & Kuylensternia
Thalassionema nitzschioides (Grunow) Mereschkowsky
Toxarium undulatum Bailey
Trachyneis aspera (Ehrenberg) Cleve
 
Undetermined genera : 2

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