''Actinoptychus'' is a genus of
diatoms
A diatom (Neo-Latin ''diatoma'') is any member of a large group comprising several Genus, genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world. Living diatoms make up a significant portion of Earth's B ...
belonging to the family
Heliopeltaceae.
The genus was described in 1843 by
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, Botany, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous an ...
.
Species:
* ''
Actinoptychus octodenarius'' Ehrenberg
* ''
Actinoptychus senarius'' (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg, 1843
References
Diatoms
Diatom genera
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