''Adlafia'' is a genus of
diatom
A diatom (Neo-Latin ''diatoma''), "a cutting through, a severance", from el, διάτομος, diátomos, "cut in half, divided equally" from el, διατέμνω, diatémno, "to cut in twain". is any member of a large group comprising sev ...
s belonging to the family
Anomoeoneidaceae
Anomoeoneidaceae is a family of diatoms belonging to the order Cymbellales
The Cymbellales are a diatom order in the class Bacillariophyceae. They include the following families
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related eith ...
.
The genus was first described in 1998.
Species:
* ''
Adlafia minuscula'' (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot
References
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Cymbellales
Diatom genera