| Craticula | |
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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: | Naviculales |
| Family: | Stauroneidaceae |
| Genus: | Craticula Grunow, 1867 |
| Type species | |
| Craticula perrotettii Grunow
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Craticula is a genus of diatom that lies on or in the top layers of sediments in the freshwater to brackish water environments it inhabits.[1][2][3] In addition to frustule morphology the genus differs from closely related species by its sexual reproduction and movement in response to light.[2][3][4]
- ^ Brooke, C.; Riding, R. (2000). "Graticula and its derivatives, replacement name for the alga Craticula Brooke". Lethaia. 33 (2): 82. doi:10.1080/00241160050150203.
- ^ a b Round, F.E.E; D. G. Mann; R. M. Crawford (1990). Diatoms: Biology and Morphology of the Genera. Cambridge University Press. pp. 594–595. ISBN 9780521363181.
- ^ a b Wehr, John D.; Robert G. Sheath (2002). Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification. Elsevier Science & Technology Books. p. 647. ISBN 9780127415505.
- ^ Häder, Donat-Peter; Michael Lebert (2001). Photomovement. Elsevier Science & Technology Books. ISBN 9780444507068.