Patricia Anne Sims

Patricia Anne Sims (born 1932), British phycologist.

Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England

IPNI standard form: P.A.Sims

Taxon names authored

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• 15 taxon names authored by Patricia Anne Sims

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Ross, R. & Sims, P.A. 1973. Observations on family and generic limits in the Centrales. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia 45: 97–126. Reference page. 
• Fryxell, G.A., Sims, P.A. & Watkins, T.P. 1986. Azpeitia (Bacillariophyceae): Related Genera and Promorphology. Systematic Botany Monographs 13: 1–74. doi:10.2307/25027634.  Reference page. 
• Hasle, G.R. & Sims, P.A. 1986. The diatom genera Stellarima and Symbolophora with comments on the genus Actinoptychus. British Phycological Journal 21(1): 97–114. doi:10.1080/00071618600650101. Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A., Fryxell, G.A. & Baldauf, J.G. 1989. Critical Examination of the Diatom Genus Azpeitia: Species useful as stratigraphic markers for the Oligocene and Miocene Epochs. Micropaleontology 35(4): 293–307. doi:10.2307/1485673.  Reference page. 
• Crawford, R.M., Sims, P.A. & Hajós, M. 1990. The morphology and taxonomy of the centric diatom genus Paralia. I. Paralia siberica comb. nov. Diatom Research 5(2): 241–252. doi:10.1080/0269249X.1990.9705116. Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A. & Hasle, G.R. 1990. The formal establishment of the family Stellarimaceae Nikolaev ex Sims & Hasle. Diatom Research 5(1): 207–208. Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A. 1998. The early history of the Biddulphiales. I. The genus Medlinia gen. nov.. Diatom Research 13(2): 337–374. Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A. & Crawford, R.M. 2002. The morphology and taxonomy of the marine centric diatom genus Paralia. II. Paralia crenulata, P. fausta and the new species, P. hendeyi. Diatom Research 17(2): 363–382. Reference page. 
• Crawford, R.M. & Sims, P.A. 2006. The diatoms Radialiplicata sol (Ehrenberg) Glezer and R. clavigera (Grunow) Glezer and their transfer to Ellerbeckia Crawford, thus a genus with freshwater and marine representatives. Nova Hedwigia Beiheft 130: 137–162. Reference page. 
• Crawford, R.M. & Sims, P.A. 2007. Ellerbeckia baileyi (H.L. Smith) Crawford & Sims comb. nov.: typification and frustule morphology of a rare freshwater fossil diatom. Diatom Research 22(1): 17–26. Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A. & Crawford, R.M. 2007. The fossil diatom genus Truania Pantocsek and its relationship with Ellerbeckia Crawford. Diatom Research 22(1): 197–207. doi:10.1080/0269249X.2007.9705704.  Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A. 2008. Ceratangula gen. nov. is proposed together with a discussion on the genera Cerataulus, Eupodiscus, Amphitetras, Amphipentas and Diommatetras. Diatom Research 23(2): 435–444.  Reference page. 
• Crawford, R.M. & Sims, P.A. 2009. Anuloplicata (Gleser) Gleser, its species and relationships with Ellerbeckia Crawford and Truania Pantocsek within the Radialiplicataceae Gleser and Moisseeva. Diatom Research 24(2): 253–272. doi:10.1080/0269249X.2009.9705801.  Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A. & Chambers, P.M. 2011. The fossil marine genus Rhaphidophora Long, Fuge & Smith. Diatom Research 17(1): 205–217. doi:10.1080/0269249X.2002.9705539.  Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A. & Witkowski, J. 2012. Generic limits within the Eupodiscaceae: I. Observations on three unusual species of Cerataulus, with reference to the type species, C. turgidus. Diatom Research 27(4): 223–236.  Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A. & Crawford, R.M. 2017. Earliest records of Ellerbeckia and Paralia from Cretaceous deposits: a description of three species, two of which are new. Diatom Research 32(1): 1–9. Reference page. 
• Sims, P.A., Williams, D.M. & Ashworth, M. 2018. Examination of type specimens for the genera Odontella and Zygoceros (Bacillariophyceae) with evidence for the new family Odontellaceae and a description of three new genera. Phytotaxa 382(1): 1–56.  Reference page.