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- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thesubphylum Bacillariophyta — manydiatoms .
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Bacillaria + -phyceae
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The arctic soil and wetland microflora is composed mainly of species from Cyanobacteria, Chrysophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Charophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Zygnemaphyceae.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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