| Skeletonema japonicum | |
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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: | Thalassiosirales |
| Family: | Skeletonemataceae |
| Genus: | Skeletonema |
| Species: | S. japonicum
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| Binomial name | |
| Skeletonema japonicum Zingone & Sarno, 2005
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Skeletonema japonicum is a diatom. Together with S. pseudocostatum, S. tropicum, and S. grethae, it possesses external processes of its fultoportulae that have narrow tips which connect with those of sibling cells via fork-, knot-, or knuckle-like unions.[1]
- ^ Sarno, Diana; Kooistra, Wiebe H. C. F.; Medlin, Linda K.; Percopo, Isabella; Zingone, Adriana (2005). "Diversity in the Genusskeletonema(Bacillariophyceae). Ii. An Assessment of the Taxonomy Ofs. Costatum-Like Species with the Description of Four New Species" (PDF). Journal of Phycology. 41 (1): 151–176. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.04067.x. ISSN 0022-3646. S2CID 53679188.