Cleve, P.T. & Grunow, A. (1880), Beitrage zur Kenntniss der arctischen Diatomeen. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar Edn. 3, 17: 21 [nom. nov.]

basionym: Stauroneis exilis Kütz. legitimate

• Type locality: Venezuela

Playfair, G. (1915), Freshwater algae of the Lismore district; with an appendix on the algal fungi and Schizomycetes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 40(2): - [secondary reference]

Playfair, G. in Maiden, J.H. & Betche, E. (ed.) (1917), Census of New South Wales freshwater algae. A census of New South Wales plants : with supplements to follow on vascular cryptogams by various specialists Suppl. 1: - [secondary reference]

Foged, N. (1978), Freshwater diatoms in eastern Australia. Bibliotheca Phycologica 41: - [secondary reference]

Prescott, G.W. (1979), A Contribution to a Bibliography of Antarctic and Subantarctic Algae Together with a Checklist of Freshwater Taxa Reported to 1977 Edn. Bd 45: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Stauroneis exilis Kütz. legitimate

• APC Comment: ABRS (2008) uses this taxon concept.

Czarnecki, D.B. (1994), The freshwater diatom culture collection at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa. In Kociolke, JP (ed) Proceedings of the 11th International Diatom Symposium, San Francisco, California, 12-17 August 1990. Memoirs of the California Academy of Science: 157 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Achnanthidium exiguum (Grunow) Czarnecki legitimate

Day, S.A., Wickham, R.P., Entwisle, T.J. & Tyler, P.A. (1995), Bibliographic checklist of non-marine algae in Australia: - [secondary reference]

ABRS (2008), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2008: - [secondary reference]

• Comment: Grunow needed a new species epithet when he transferred Stauroneis exilis Kutz. to Achnanthes. Achnanthes exilis Kutz. 1833 meant a homonym would be formed. Also published by Grunow in 1880 in van Heurck 'Synopsis des Diatomees de Belgique' Atlas pls 1-30 as the text associated with pl. XXVII fig 29
• AMANI dist.: Tasmania (Macquarie Island), Romania, Venezuela, Jamaica, Campbell Is
• Nutrition: Autotrophic
• Habitat: Freshwater

Entwisle, T.J. & Nairn, L. (2011), Census of Freshwater Algae in Australia. Edn. Version 1.0: - [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: T.J.Entwisle and L.Nairn (2011) use this taxon concept.
• Distribution: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory

McCarthy, P. (2012), Census of Australian Marine Diatoms: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Achnanthidium exiguum (Grunow) Czarnecki legitimate

Kulikovskiy, M., Maltsev, Y., Glushchenko, A., Kuznetsova, I., Kapustin, D., Gusev, E., Lange-Bertalot, H., Genkal, S. & Kociolek, J.P. (November 2020), Gogorevia, a new monoraphid diatom genus for Achnanthes exigua and allied taxa (Achnanthidiaceae) described on the basis of an integrated molecular and morphological approach. Journal of Phycology 56(6): 1610 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gogorevia exilis (Kütz.) Kulikovskiy & J.P.Kociolek legitimate

Algal Subcommittee (2021), CHAH Algal Subcommittee: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Gogorevia exilis (Kütz.) Kulikovskiy & J.P.Kociolek legitimate

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