Bacillaria paxillifer (or Bacillaria paxillifera) is a colonial diatom species in the family Bacillariaceae.[2] Bacillaria paxillifer is homotypic with Bacillaria paradoxa, but B. paxillifera is the correct name.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Gyrista |
| Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
| Class: | Bacillariophyceae |
| Order: | Bacillariales |
| Family: | Bacillariaceae |
| Genus: | Bacillaria |
| Species: | B. paxillifer
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| Bacillaria paxillifer (O. F. Müll.) Hendy (1951)[1]
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Bacillaria have a unique form of colonial motility among diatoms.[3] Individual cells (with their long axes parallel to one another) slide against their neighbors in a coordinated fashion, allowing the entire structure to expand or contract.[4]
Taxonomy
editBacillaria paxillifer was originally described under the name Vibrio paxillifer by Otto Frederick Müller in 1786. It is the first diatom species known to be described.[5] It was separately described two years later (1788) by Johann Friedrich Gmelin as Bacillaria paradoxa. The correct name, Bacillaria paxillifera (O.F.Müll.) N.I.Hendey. (1951), was established based on rules of priority.[2][5]
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References
edit- ^ "Bacillaria". Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-12-21.
- ^ a b "ITIS database". Archived from the original on 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^ a b Jahn, Regine; Schmid, Anna-Maria M. (2007-08-15). "Revision of the brackish-freshwater diatom genus Bacillaria Gmelin (Bacillariophyta) with the description of a new variety and two new species". European Journal of Phycology. 42 (3): 295–312. doi:10.1080/09670260701428864. ISSN 0967-0262.
- ^ Gordon, Richard (2016-01-22). "Partial synchronization of the colonial diatom Bacillaria "paradoxa"". Research Ideas and Outcomes. 2: e7869. doi:10.3897/rio.2.e7869. ISSN 2367-7163.
- ^ a b "Bacillaria paxillifera | Species - Diatoms of North America". diatoms.org. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
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