Didymosphenia

Didymosphenia
Didymosphenia geminata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: Sar
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Ochrophyta
Clade: Diatomeae
Class: Bacillariophyceae
Order: Cymbellales
Family: Cymbellaceae
Genus: Didymosphenia
M.Schmidt, 1899

Didymosphenia is a genus of diatoms belonging to the family Cymbellaceae.

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.

Species:

  • Didymosphenia fossilis Horikawa & Okuno, 1944
  • Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) M.Schmidt, 1899
  • Didymosphenia lineata Skabichevskii, 1983
  • Didymosphenia pumila Metzeltin & Lange-Bertalot, 1995
  • Didymosphenia sublinearis Shirshov, 1935
  • Didymosphenia tatrensis T.Mrozinska, J.Czerwik-Marcinkowska & M.Gradzinski, 2006