APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

Diatoms, marine microalgae and algae-bacterial mats and films
Diatoms
Ochrophyta (Phylum) > Khakista (Subphylum)

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Achnanthales (Order) > Achnanthaceae (Family)

Achnanthes
Achnanthes sp. - A marine diatom

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Achnanthales (Order) > Cocconeidaceae (Family)

Cocconeis
Cocconeis sp. - A marine diatom

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Bacillariophycidae (Subclass) > Bacillariophycanae (Superorder) > Naviculales (Order) > Neidiineae (Suborder) > Berkeleyaceae (Family)

Berkeleya
Berkeleya rutilans (Trentepohl ex Roth) Grunow, 1880 ?
- A Marine diatom

Berkeleya sp. found on flotsam - A marine diatom

Parlibellus
Parlibellus delognei (Van Heurck) E.J.Cox, 1988 ?
- A marine diatom

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Biddulphianae (Superorder) > Biddulphiales (Order) > Biddulphiaceae (Family)

Isthmia
Isthmia nervosa Kützing, 1844 - A marine diatom

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Coscinodiscanae (Superorder) > Coscinodiscales (Order) > Coscinodiscaceae (Family)

Coscinodiscus
Coscinodiscus radiatus Ehrenberg, 1840
- A centric diatom

Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst, 1931 ?
- A centric diatom

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Coscinodiscanae (Superorder) > Melosirales (Order) > Hyalodiscaceae (Family)

Podosira
Podosira stelligera (Bailey) A.Mann, 1907 - A diatom

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Coscinodiscophycidae (Subclass) > Coscinodiscanae (Superorder) > Melosirales (Order) > Melosiraceae (Family)

Melosira
Melosira moniliformis (O.F.Müller) C.Agardh, 1824 ?
- A marine diatom

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Fragilariophycidae (Subclass) > Fragilariophycanae (Superorder) > Licmophorales (Order) > Licmophoraceae (Family)

Licmophora
Licmophora flabellata (Grev.) C.Agardh, 1831
- A pennate Diatom

Licmophora sp. - Diatom on the hydroid Obelia geniculata
Licmophora sp.
- As a symbiont of the flatworm Convoluta convoluta

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Fragilariophycidae (Subclass) > Fragilariophycanae (Superorder) > Striatellales (Order) > Striatellaceae (Family)

Grammatophora
Grammatophora marina (Lyngbye) Kützing, 1844 ?
- A marine diatom

Striatella
Striatella unipunctata (Lyngbye) C.Agardh, 1832
- A marine diatom

Bacillariophyceae (Class) > Fragilariophycidae (Subclass) > Fragilariophycanae (Superorder) > Thalassionematales (Order) > Thalassionemataceae (Family)

Thalassionema
Thalassionema nitzschioides (Grunow) Mereschkowsky, 1902 ? - A marine diatom

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An assemblage of diatoms on the
red alga Dumontia contorta. 26.05.16

An assemblage of diatoms on the red
encrusting alga Lithothamnion. 15.02.17.

Diatoms on the Yellow vase sea squirt, Ciona intestinalis at Newlyn Marina, possibly Licmophora flabellata

Algae-bacterial mat, including what are possibly naviculoid diatoms, the mat was found on the aboral surface of the stalked jellyfish Lucernariopsis cruxmelitensis

Diatoms plastids marine microalgae algae mat film Images UK