Diatoms Domain Kingdom Phylum

Most diverse phylum in animal kingdom one million different species and more than one.

Diatoms domain kingdom phylum. Diatoms are among the most important and prolific microscopic sea organisms and serve directly or indirectly as food for many animals. Description of diatoms 2. Classification of diatoms kingdom.

Centrales and pennales author x. This domain is made up of prokaryotes and includes bacteria most people are familiar with. In biology kingdom latin.

Diatoms are classified as eukaryotes organisms with a membrane bound cell nucleus that separates them from the prokaryotes archaea and bacteria. Centrales and pennales inproceedings crosta2007classificationod title classification of diatoms kingdom. Descriptive morphology of the diatoms 6.

They may be designated a division phylum kingdom or something intermediate to those consequently diatoms are ranked anywhere from a class usually called diatomophyceae or. Diatoms are a type of plankton called phytoplankton the most common of the plankton types. Diatom class bacillariophyceae any member of the algal class bacillariophyceae division chromophyta with about 16 000 species found in sediments or attached to solid substances in all the waters of earth.

Phylum phaeophyta brown algae. Diatoms also grow attached to benthic substrates floating debris and on macrophytes. 1995 provided more comprehensive coverage of diatom taxonomy.

It is a large group of algae consisting of 200 genera and over 10 000 species out of which 92 genera and about 569 species are reported from india. Bacillariophyceae orders centrales figure 3 pennales round crawford 1990 and hoek et al. Regnum plural regna is the second highest taxonomic rank just below domain kingdoms are divided into smaller groups called phyla traditionally some textbooks from the united states and canada used a system of six kingdoms animalia plantae fungi protista archaea archaebacteria and bacteria eubacteria while textbooks in countries like great britain india.