Catalogue of Diatom names available at: http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/diatoms/names/ The Catalogue of Diatom Names is a relational database of diatom names and publications, compiled by staff at the California Academy of Sciences. It includes a table of genus names, a table of species and infraspecific taxa names, and a table of publications. We have recorded basic nomenclatural information for each name such as authorship, place and date of publication, and nomenclatural status. We have personally verified over 50% of the entries. More information on this dataset can be found in the Freshwater Metadatabase - BFE_17 (http://www.freshwatermetadata.eu/metadb/bf_mdb_view.php?entryID=BFE_17).