Surirella

{{Short description|Genus of single-celled organisms}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Surirella spiralis - SEM MUSE - sharpened.jpeg

| image_caption = Surirella spiralis

| taxon = Surirella

| authority = Turpin, 1828,Observations sur le nouveau genre Surirella. PJF Turpin, Mémoires du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle 16, pages 361-368, 1828

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = about 325 (WoRMS lists 871),{{cite web |title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Surirella P.J.F. Turpin, 1828 |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149084 |website=www.marinespecies.org |access-date=10 November 2022 |language=en}} including:

• Surirella arcticaVeselá, J.; Potapova, M. 2014: Surirella arctica comb. et stat. nov. (Bacillariophyta)—a rare arctic diatom. Phytotaxa 166(3), pages 222–234, {{doi|10.11646/phytotaxa.166.3.3}}
• Surirella elegans
• Surirella parahelvetica
• Surirella subrotunda

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Surirella is a genus of diatoms in the family Surirellaceae.

The genus was circumscribed by Pierre Jean François Turpin in Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. vol.16 on page 361 in 1828.

The genus name of Surirella is in honour of Jacques Simon Armand Suriray (1769–1846), who was a French doctor, naturalist and botanist (Algology), Zoologist, who worked in Le Havre.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}