Palmerina hardmaniana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coscinodiscales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: Tsar Cladus: Sar Infraregnum: Heterokonta Phylum: Ochrophyta Subphylum: Bacillariophytina Classis: Bacillariophyceae Subclassis: Coscinodiscophycidae Superordo: Coscinodiscanae Ordo: Coscinodiscales

Familia: Coscinodiscaceae
Genus: Palmerina
Species: Palmerina hardmaniana

Name

Palmerina hardmaniana (Greville) G.R.Hasle (1996): 357

• Type locality:' Hong Kong: harbor; leg. John Linton Palmer in 1863.

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Palmeria hardmaniana Greville (1865): 2, pl. V: figs 1-4
• Homotypic
  • Hemidiscus hardmanianus (Greville) Kuntze (1898)
• Heterotypic
  • Hemidiscus niveus Hanna & Grant, 1926

Etymology: Named after an English merchant, Laurence Hardman (1808-1896), who was an amateur microscopist and a friend of Greville.

References

• Hasle, G.R. 1996 '1995'. Nomenclatural notes on Palmerina nom. nov.: Pseudo-nitzschia turgiduloides sp. nov. Diatom Research 10(2): 357–358. Reference page. 
• Greville, R.K. 1865. Descriptions of new genera and species of Diatoms from Hong Kong, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 3 (91): 1–7. BHL Reference page.