Melosira

Melosira is a genus of diatoms belonging to the family Melosiraceae.

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution, and inhabits both freshwater and marine habitats.

Melosira is considered as meroplankton, as they remain free-floating like planktons for a certain stage in their life cycle.

Species
Species:


 * Gaillonella ampla Dujardin, 1842
 * Gaillonella apiculata Ehrenberg, 1855
 * Gaillonella asperula Ehrenberg, 1844
 * Gaillonella biseriata Ehrenberg, 1842
 * Gaillonella borei (Greville) Pelletan, 1889
 * Gaillonella californica Ehrenberg, 1852
 * Gaillonella calligera Ehrenberg, 1845
 * Gaillonella campylosira Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella capsularis Dujardin, 1842
 * Gaillonella carinata Ehrenberg, 1846
 * Gaillonella circularis Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella coarctata Ehrenberg, 1843
 * Gaillonella comoides Bory, 1827
 * Gaillonella corneola Dorff, 1934
 * Gaillonella coronata Ehrenberg, 1845
 * Gaillonella crenata Ehrenberg, 1844
 * Gaillonella crotonensis J.W. Bailey, 1854
 * Gaillonella cuneata Ehrenberg, 1869
 * Gaillonella curvata Ehrenberg
 * Gaillonella decussata Ehrenberg, 1843
 * Gaillonella digitus Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella discoplea Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella distans Ehrenberg, 1837
 * Gaillonella ferruginea Ehrenberg, 1836
 * Gaillonella gallica Ehrenberg, 1836
 * Gaillonella gemmata Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella gibba Ehrenberg, 1843
 * Gaillonella glomerata Naumann, 1922
 * Gaillonella halophila Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella horologium Ehrenberg, 1843
 * Gaillonella hyperborea Jorgensen, 1900
 * Gaillonella irregularis Eichwald, 1844
 * Gaillonella italica Ehrenberg, 1838
 * Gaillonella laevis Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella laminaris Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella lineata (Dillwyn) Bory, 1838
 * Gaillonella lineolata Ehrenberg, 1843
 * Gaillonella lirata Ehrenberg, 1843
 * Gaillonella marchica Ehrenberg, 1843
 * Gaillonella marylandica Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella mesodon Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella moniliformis Bory, 1838
 * Gaillonella nilotica Ehrenberg, 1852
 * Gaillonella novaehollandiae Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella nummuloides Duby, 1830
 * Gaillonella oculus Ehrenberg, 1844
 * Gaillonella operculata Ehrenberg, 1835
 * Gaillonella orichalcea Brébisson, 1838
 * Gaillonella patina Ehrenberg, 1837
 * Gaillonella pileata Ehrenberg, 1844
 * Gaillonella plana Ehrenberg, 1845
 * Gaillonella plicata Ehrenberg, 1870
 * Gaillonella procera Ehrenberg, 1842
 * Gaillonella punctata Ehrenberg, 1843
 * Gaillonella punctigera Ehrenberg, 1842
 * Gaillonella scala Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella sideropous Naumann, 1922
 * Gaillonella sol Ehrenberg, 1844
 * Gaillonella sphaerophora Ehrenberg, 1870
 * Gaillonella spiralis Ehrenberg, 1845
 * Gaillonella stellata Corda, 1840
 * Gaillonella subtilis Brébisson, 1838
 * Gaillonella sulcata Ehrenberg, 1838
 * Gaillonella taeniata Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella tenerrima Ehrenberg, 1842
 * Gaillonella tenuis Gutwinski, 1893
 * Gaillonella tincta Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella tornata Ehrenberg
 * Gaillonella trachealis Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella tympanum Ehrenberg, 1844
 * Gaillonella umbellata Beger, 1949
 * Gaillonella umbonata Ehrenberg, 1872
 * Gaillonella undata Prichard, 1861
 * Gaillonella undulata Ehrenberg, 1840
 * Gaillonella vaginata Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Gaillonella varians Ehrenberg, 1838
 * Gaillonella vermicularis Brebisson, 1835
 * Gaillonella virginica Ehrenberg, 1854
 * Melosira accinctus Hohn & Hellerman, 1963
 * Melosira aculeifera Scheschukova-Poretzkaya, 1964
 * Melosira adeliae Manguin, 1957
 * Melosira aequalis Agardh, 1832
 * Melosira africana Leuduger-Fortmorel, 1898
 * Melosira agassizii Ostenfeld, 1909
 * Melosira agria Pantocsek, 1905
 * Melosira akkavaarensis Tynni, 1982
 * Melosira albicans Sheshukova, 1961
 * Melosira alphabetica Mann, 1937
 * Melosira alternans Pouchet, 1893
 * Melosira ambigua (Grunow) O.F. Müller, 1904
 * Melosira americana Kützing, 1844
 * Melosira anastomosans Grunow, 1882
 * Melosira angustissima Neizvestnova-Zhadina, 1941
 * Melosira annularis Eichwald, 1847
 * Melosira anormal Van Heurck, 1882
 * Melosira antarctica Van Heurck, 1909
 * Melosira architecturalis Brun, 1892
 * Melosira arctica Dickie, 1852
 * Melosira arcuata Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira arenosa Moore ex Hassall, 1852
 * Melosira areolata O. Müller, 1904
 * Melosira argus Otto Müller, 1904
 * Melosira arundinacea F.S. Castracane degli Antelminelli
 * Melosira astridae D. Metzeltin & H. Lange-Bertalot, 2007
 * Melosira atlymica Rubina, 1962
 * Melosira aueri Cleve-Euler, 1948
 * Melosira bacillosa Otto Müller, 1903
 * Melosira baicalensis (K.I. Meyer) Wislouch
 * Melosira baikalensis S. Wislouch, 1924
 * Melosira bellicosa Héribaud, 1903
 * Melosira biharensis Pantocsek, 1886
 * Melosira biseriata (Ehrenberg) Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira bituminosa Pantocsek
 * Melosira biwae Mori, 1974
 * Melosira bongrainii M. Peragallo, 1921
 * Melosira borreri (O.F. Müller) A. Grunow
 * Melosira borrerii Greville, 1833
 * Melosira bottnica Grunow, 1879
 * Melosira boulayana Peragallo, 1902
 * Melosira brandinii L.F. Fernandes & R.M. Souza-Mosimann, 2001
 * Melosira bruni M. Peragallo & Héribaud-Joseph
 * Melosira caliginosa Hanna, 1927
 * Melosira campaniensis Moshkovitz, Ehrlich & Soudry, 1983
 * Melosira camusi Héribaud-Joseph
 * Melosira canadensis Hustedt, 1952
 * Melosira canalifera J.-J. Brun & Héribaud-Joseph
 * Melosira caputmedusae Pantocsek, 1886
 * Melosira carconensis Grunow, 1882
 * Melosira caspica Henckel, 1909
 * Melosira catenata Brun, 1895
 * Melosira charcotii M. Peragallo, 1921
 * Melosira cincta Pantocsek, 1886
 * Melosira clavigera Grunow, 1882
 * Melosira clypeus J. Brun, 1889
 * Melosira complexa Lohman, 1948
 * Melosira concinna Castracane, 1866
 * Melosira constricta Akimova, 1940
 * Melosira cornuta Tempére & Brun, 1889
 * Melosira coronaria Mann, 1907
 * Melosira coronata (Ehrenberg) Kutzing
 * Melosira costata Greville, 1866
 * Melosira crassa K.E. Lohman, 1957
 * Melosira crenulata Cleve & Möller
 * Melosira cretacea Jousé, 1951
 * Melosira cribrosa Brebisson, 1857
 * Melosira cristata Pantocsek, 1889
 * Melosira crucicula G.B. De Toni
 * Melosira crucipunctata Bachmann, 1936
 * Melosira csakyana Pantocsek, 1913
 * Melosira cucullata Chen, 1980
 * Melosira curvatula Janisch, 1892
 * Melosira cycola Ehrenberg
 * Melosira dactylus (Ehrenberg) Tempère & Peragallo, 1914
 * Melosira davidsonii Schmidt, 1893
 * Melosira deblockii H.F. Van Heurck
 * Melosira decipiens Grove, 1893
 * Melosira decussata (Ehrenberg) Kützing
 * Melosira dendrophila (Ehrenberg) R. Ross & P.A. Sims, 1978
 * Melosira densserrae Long, Fuge & Smith, 1946
 * Melosira dentata H.L. Smith, 1884
 * Melosira denticulata K.E. Lohman, 1957
 * Melosira dewildemanii Van Heurck, 1909
 * Melosira dickiei (Thwaites) Kützing, 1849
 * Melosira discigera Agardh, 1824
 * Melosira dispersa Carter, 1966
 * Melosira dougetii Manguin, 1957
 * Melosira dozyana Kützing, 1849
 * Melosira dubia Kützing, 1844
 * Melosira duplicata Schmidt, 1893
 * Melosira dura Mann, 1925
 * Melosira echinata E.E. Manguin
 * Melosira echinus Frenguelli, 1938
 * Melosira elegans Mukhina, 1978
 * Melosira elongata Jousé, 1966
 * Melosira excentrica Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira excurrens Nygaard, 1956
 * Melosira exspectata Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira fausta A.W.F. Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira fennoscandica Cleve-Euler, 1943
 * Melosira ferox Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira forolivensis Forti, 1914
 * Melosira fragilis (Roth) Kützing, 1833
 * Melosira frigida Jousé, 1959
 * Melosira fungiformis Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira gardneri I. Kaczmarska, 1985
 * Melosira garganica Rabenhorst, 1853
 * Melosira gelida Cleve, 1883
 * Melosira geometrica Hanna, 1932
 * Melosira gessneri F. Hustedt, 1965
 * Melosira globifera (D. Carmichael) Harvey, 1841
 * Melosira glomus F.C. Castracane degli Antelminelli
 * Melosira godfroyi M. Peragallo, 1921
 * Melosira goetzeana O. Müller
 * Melosira goretzkyi Tscheremissinova, 1956
 * Melosira gothica Cleve-Euler, 1951
 * Melosira gowenii Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira grandis Perty, 1852
 * Melosira granulata Otto Müller, 1903
 * Melosira granulosa O. Müller
 * Melosira grovei Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira guillauminii Manguin ex Kociolek & Reviers, 1996
 * Melosira haradaae Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira helvetica (O.F. Müller) Cleve-Euler, 1911
 * Melosira heribaudii Brun, 1893
 * Melosira herzogii Lemmermann
 * Melosira hetrurica Kützing, 1844
 * Melosira heufleri G.G.A. Meneghini
 * Melosira hibschii Reichelt, 1897-1900
 * Melosira hispanica Hajós, 1982
 * Melosira hispida C. Janisch
 * Melosira hispida H. Peragallo, 1888
 * Melosira hokkaidoana Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira hormoides Montagne, 1939
 * Melosira hummii Hustedt, 1955
 * Melosira hunanica Chen & Zhu
 * Melosira hungarica Pantocsek, 1892; Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira hustedti Krasske, 1939
 * Melosira hyalina Sypniewsky, 1860
 * Melosira hyalinula De Toni, 1894
 * Melosira hyperborea Grunow, 1882
 * Melosira ignota Rubina, 1962
 * Melosira imperfecta Héribaud, 1903
 * Melosira incertum Leuduger-Fortmorel, 1898
 * Melosira incompta Mann, 1925
 * Melosira incorrupta Carter, 1966
 * Melosira indica Skvortzov
 * Melosira inflexa (Roth) Guiry, 2019
 * Melosira inordinata Lohman & Andrews, 1968
 * Melosira interrupta Lohman & Andrews, 1968
 * Melosira irregularis O. Müller
 * Melosira irregularis Pantocsek, 1889
 * Melosira islandica O.F. Müller, 1906
 * Melosira italica (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1844
 * Melosira japonica Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira jeanbertrandiana Van de Vijver & Crawford, 2019
 * Melosira jenyssejana Henckel, 1926
 * Melosira jilinensis Huang, 1983
 * Melosira johnesii Meyer, 1925
 * Melosira juergensis C. Agardh
 * Melosira jurgensii Kützing
 * Melosira jurlijii Gyarmati & Hajós
 * Melosira jutlandica Grunow
 * Melosira kamtschatica Grunow ex Cleve & Moller, 1877
 * Melosira karelica Mölder, 1951
 * Melosira karsteni Mangin, 1915
 * Melosira kochii Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira kondeensis Otto Müller, 1904
 * Melosira labuensis Cleve, 1883
 * Melosira lacustris Chase, 1886
 * Melosira laevis (Ehrenberg) J. Ralfs
 * Melosira laevissima Grunow, 1882
 * Melosira lauterbornii Pantocsek, 1908
 * Melosira lentigera (Carmichael) Harvey
 * Melosira lineata (Dillwyn) C. Agardh, 1824
 * Melosira lirata (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1844
 * Melosira loczyi Pantocsek, 1889
 * Melosira lolia Hanna, 1927
 * Melosira lucida Cleve-Euler, 1939
 * Melosira lyrata Ehrenberg
 * Melosira lyrata Grunow, 1893
 * Melosira madagascariensis Schmidt, 1893
 * Melosira magnusii Otto Müller, 1904
 * Melosira major Grove, 1892
 * Melosira mareei Kufferath, 1956
 * Melosira margarita K.E. Lohman, 1957
 * Melosira marginata Hajós, 1968
 * Melosira mauryana Héribaud-Joseph
 * Melosira mbasiensis Otto Müller, 1904
 * Melosira mediterranea Grunow, 1882
 * Melosira medusa Mann, 1907
 * Melosira melinitica Pantocsek, 1886
 * Melosira mexicana Grunow ex Cleve & Möller, 1878
 * Melosira micropunctata K.E. Lohman, 1957
 * Melosira mikkelsenii Nygaard, 1956
 * Melosira minima Hajós, 1968
 * Melosira minuta Héribaud, 1903
 * Melosira minutula F.J. Chauvin
 * Melosira miocaenica E.A. Cheremisinova
 * Melosira mirabilis Brun, 1892
 * Melosira moisseevae Lupikina, 1984
 * Melosira moniliformis (O.F. Müller) C. Agardh, 1824
 * Melosira montagnei (Kützing) N.G.W. Lagerstedt
 * Melosira mucosa Manguin, 1915
 * Melosira muelleri VanLandingham, 1971
 * Melosira muscigena Iwahashi, 1936
 * Melosira mutabilis Otto Müller
 * Melosira muzzanensis Meister, 1912
 * Melosira naegeli Ralfs, 1861
 * Melosira natans Hilse, 1863
 * Melosira neocaledonica Manguin, 1962
 * Melosira neogena Pantocsek, 1913
 * Melosira neosphaerica VanLandingham, 1971
 * Melosira neostriata VanLandingham, 1971
 * Melosira nivalis W. Smith, 1855
 * Melosira nobilis Greville, 1865
 * Melosira normannii Arnott, 1882
 * Melosira nuda K.E. Lohman, 1957
 * Melosira nummuloides Greville, 1833
 * Melosira nummuloides W. Smith
 * Melosira nummulus A.F. Meunier, 1915
 * Melosira numulina Agardh
 * Melosira nyassensis Otto Müller, 1904
 * Melosira nygaardii Camburn, 1986
 * Melosira oamaruensis Grove & Sturt, 1887
 * Melosira ochracea (A.W. Roth) J. Ralfs, 1843
 * Melosira octogona A.W.F. Schmidt, 1893
 * Melosira oculus (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1849
 * Melosira oculuschamaeleontis Ehernberg, 1844
 * Melosira oestrupi Cleve-Euler, 1910
 * Melosira omma Cleve
 * Melosira orbifera Brun, 1892
 * Melosira ordinata (Kützing)
 * Melosira orichalcea (Mertens ex Jürgens) Kützing, 1833
 * Melosira ornata Grunow
 * Melosira ostrupi A. Cleve
 * Melosira ostrupii Héribaud, 1920
 * Melosira papilio Mukhina, 1978
 * Melosira papillifera Hendey, 1972
 * Melosira patera J.A. Long, D.P. Fuge & J. Smith, 1946
 * Melosira paucipunctata K.E. Lohman, 1957
 * Melosira pella Lohman & Andrews, 1968
 * Melosira pensacolae Schmidt, 1893
 * Melosira peragalloii Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira perglabra Østrup, 1910
 * Melosira perpusilla Frenguelli, 1923
 * Melosira pethoei (Pantocsek)
 * Melosira pfaffiana Reinsch, 1867
 * Melosira plana (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1849
 * Melosira polaris Grunow, 1884
 * Melosira ponderosa K.E. Lohman, 1957
 * Melosira pontificalis Brun, 1893
 * Melosira prae-angustissima Jousé, 1952
 * Melosira praeclara Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira praetermissa V.A. Nikolajev, 1965
 * Melosira prichalcea (Mert. Ex Juerg.) Kuetz
 * Melosira pseudoamericana Camburn, 1986
 * Melosira pseudogranulata Cleve-Euler, 1948
 * Melosira pulchella Hustedt, 1952
 * Melosira punctata (W. Smith) J. Dannf., 1882
 * Melosira puncticulosa Otto Müller, 1903
 * Melosira punctissima K.E. Lohman, 1957
 * Melosira punctulosa Bethge, 1925
 * Melosira pusilla F. Meister, 1913
 * Melosira pyxis Otto Müller
 * Melosira radiato-sinuata Chen, 1980
 * Melosira recedens Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira rieufii Héribaud, 1908
 * Melosira robusta Hustedt, 1952
 * Melosira roeseana Rabenhorst, 1852
 * Melosira roseana Rabenhorst
 * Melosira rostratis Zakrzewski, 1934
 * Melosira royatensis VanLandingham, 1971
 * Melosira salina Kützing, 1844
 * Melosira samoensis Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira saratoviana Pantocsek, 1889
 * Melosira sarmatica Pantocsek, 1889
 * Melosira saturnalis Brun, 1892
 * Melosira scabrosa Østrup, 1908
 * Melosira scalaris Grunow, 1882
 * Melosira schawoi Pantocsek, 1908
 * Melosira schroederi J. Woloszynska
 * Melosira scopos Mann, 1907
 * Melosira selecta Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira semilaevis Grunow, 1882
 * Melosira separanda A.W.F. Schmidt
 * Melosira setosa J.R. Carter, 1966
 * Melosira siberica A.W.F. Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira similis Hustedt, 1942
 * Melosira simplex Mann, 1937
 * Melosira sinensis Chen, 1980
 * Melosira sol Kützing, 1849
 * Melosira solitoria Manguin ex Kociolek & Reviers, 1996
 * Melosira sparsepunctata Hajós, 1974
 * Melosira spec Otto Müller, 1903
 * Melosira sphaerica Héribaud, 1903
 * Melosira spinifera Hustedt, 1927
 * Melosira spinosa Greville
 * Melosira spinosa Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira spinuligera M. Peragallo
 * Melosira spinulosa Hustedt, 1952
 * Melosira spiralis (Ehrenberg) Kützing
 * Melosira steffanssoni Østrup, 1918
 * Melosira strangulata Héribaud, 1908
 * Melosira striata M. Peragallo & Héribaud, 1893
 * Melosira subflexilia Kützing, 1833
 * Melosira subflexilis Kützing, 1833
 * Melosira subhyalina Van Heurck, 1909
 * Melosira subornata Schmidt, 1892
 * Melosira subsalsa Cleve-Euler, 1912
 * Melosira subsetosa Manguin, 1960
 * Melosira subtilis Van Goor, 1924
 * Melosira tahitiensis Castracane, 1886
 * Melosira tcherniae Manguin, 1960
 * Melosira tcherniai Manguin, 1957
 * Melosira temperei Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira tenella Nygaard, 1956
 * Melosira tenuis Otto Muller ex Lemmermann, 1903
 * Melosira tenuissima Grunow, 1882
 * Melosira teres Brun, 1892
 * Melosira thermalis Meneghini, 1845
 * Melosira thompsonii Harvey, 1841
 * Melosira thrypsia Barron, 1975
 * Melosira thumii Pantocsek, 1889
 * Melosira timensis Oksiyuk, 1960
 * Melosira transitus Carter & Denny, 1987
 * Melosira transylvanica Pantocsek, 1892
 * Melosira triannula K.E. Lohman, 1957
 * Melosira tricostata Gleser, 1964
 * Melosira trimorpha (Otto Müller)
 * Melosira tropica P.L. Crouan & H.M. Crouan
 * Melosira truncata E. Grove
 * Melosira tuantianensis C. Huang
 * Melosira tuberculosa Cleve, 1881
 * Melosira tubulata Eichwald, 1860
 * Melosira turgida Ehrlich, 1973
 * Melosira undulata (Ehrenberg) Kützing, 1844
 * Melosira vangeliana Pantocsek & Greguss, 1913
 * Melosira vanheurckii M. Peragallo, 1921
 * Melosira varennarum M. Peragallo & Héribaud, 1893
 * Melosira variabilis McLaughlin, 1986
 * Melosira varians C. Agardh, 1827
 * Melosira variante Agardh, 1832
 * Melosira variata Otto Müller
 * Melosira vetustissima Hajós & Stradner, 1974
 * Melosira vilida (Grunow) Meister