Galapagos Species Database
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Platichthys darwiniana
Diatomea, Diatom
Environment: brackish (Horton et al., 2021).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ochrophyta
Class
Bacillariophyceae
Order
Surirellales
Family
Entomoneidaceae
Genus
Platichthys
Species
darwiniana
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: MCCDRS 7862 at the Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Galápagos; Type locality: Island Isabela: Diablas Lagoon, littoral, a sample from the Late Holocene sediment core, a sample from the Late Holocne sediment core collected in 2005, subsampled by A Seddon, 2007 (Lange-Bertalot et al., 2015)
Origin: Endemic
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Lange-Bertalot, H. Witkowski, A., Kulikovskiy, M., Seddon, A. W. R., & Kociolek, J. P. (2015) Taxonomy, frustular morphology and systematics of Platichthys, a new genus of canal raphe bearing diatoms within the Entomoneidaceae. Phytotaxa, 236(2), 135. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.236.2.3
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"Galapagos Species Database, Platichthys darwiniana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18481. Accessed 1 November 2026.