adlafia adlafia adlafia is a genus of diatoms belonging to the family anomoeoneidaceae. adlafia scientific classification domain: eukaryota clade: diaphoretickes clade: sar clade: stramenopiles phylum: gyrista subphylum: ochrophytina class: bacillariophyceae order: cymbellales family: anomoeoneidaceae genus: adlafiagerd moser, lange-bertalot & metzeltin the genus was first described in 1998. species: adlafia minuscula (grunow) lange-bertalot