Biddulphia

/bɪˈdʌlfiə/ noun

A genus of small marine diatoms (single-celled algae) commonly found in ocean sediments.

Named after Biddulph, a 19th-century British naturalist and fossil collector, using the Latinized form with '-ia' suffix (standard for biological genus names).

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