Palmerina

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Coscinodiscaceae
Genus: Palmerina
Species: P. capillaris – P. hardmaniana – P. ostenfeldii

Name

Palmerina G.R.Hasle, 1996 nom. nov.

• Type species: Palmerina hardmaniana (Greville) G.R.Hasle

Synonyms

• Replaced synonym
  • Palmeria Greville, (1865): 1, nom. illeg. (junior homonym of Palmeria F.Muell. 1864)
    • Type species: Palmeria hardmaniana Greville

Etymology: Named after a British naval surgeon, John Linton Palmer (1824-1903), who collected diatoms in Hong Kong Harbour while aboard H.M.S. Melville, and provided samples to Greville (read about Linton Palmer's travels in Driver, 2020).

References

Primary references

• 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. 
• Hasle, G.R. 1996 '1995'. Nomenclatural notes on Palmerina nom. nov.: Pseudo-nitzschia turgiduloides sp. nov. Diatom Research 10(2): 357–358. Reference page. 
• Williams, D.M. 2025. Notes on the type specimens of Palmerina hardmaniana (Greville) Hasle [= Palmeria hardmaniana Greville], with comments on its relationships, other species in the genus, and the long history of synapomorphy. Diatom Research 40(3): 189–202. doi:10.1080/0269249X.2025.2504346. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Driver, F. 2020. Material memories of travel: the albums of a Victorian naval surgeon. Journal of Historical Geography 69: 32–54. Reference page.