Harpella leptosa, a new species of Trichomycetes substantiated by electron microscopy

1980 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 1035-1044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen T. Moss ◽  
Robert W. Lichtwardt

Harpella leptosa (Harpellales, Harpellaceae) from the midget region of blackfly larvae (Simuliidae) is described. With the light microscope it is distinguished from the only known species of the genus, H. melusinae, primarily by its smaller dimensions and less conspicuous holdfast, but electron microscopic studies reveal significant differences in the substructure of the trichospore appendages and holdfast apparatus. Harpella leptosa is presently known only from the northern Rocky Mountains. The two species of Harpella are sympatric, and occasionally live simultaneously in the same host gut.

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
DIANE WINTER ◽  
LOREN BAHLS

A new species of Encyonema is described from the benthos of small mountain streams and rivers in western Montana and northern Wyoming. Previously this species had been identified incorrectly as E. hebridicum Grunow ex Cleve and Cymbella affinis Kützing or assigned the provisional name Encyonema sp. 1 MONTANA HAMSHER ANSP. Here we formally recognize this taxon as a new species, Encyonema hamsherae.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 509 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
STANEK-TARKOWSKA JADWIGA ◽  
CZYŻ EWA ANTONINA ◽  
RYBAK MATEUSZ

A new Microcostatus species was found during a study focusing on diatoms present on soils and among terrestrial mosses. Unlike most known European species of this genus, it has easily distinguishable striae under the light microscope and a distinct central area. Additionally, the newly described species shows lack of conopeum and pseudoconopeum. A detailed morphological characterisation using light and scanning electron microscopy of a new species from the genus Microcostatus and comparison to the most similar taxa are given.


2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. Stephenson ◽  
Yu. K. Novozhilov ◽  
P. Wellman

A new species of Cribraria, described herein as C. bicolor, appeared in moist chamber cultures on samples of the bark of Eucalyptus sp. collected at two localities in Australia. The morphology of representative specimens was examined by light and scanning electron microscopy, and micrographs of relevant morphological details of sporocarps and spores are provided. The species has a number of distinct and unique morphological features, including a glossy bright-violet globose sporotheca and a two-colored long stalk which is bright-red over the lower one-third and light yellow or lemon-yellow over the upper two-thirds. The combination of these characteristics as well as a shallow calyculus which is dark-violet when viewed under a dissecting microscope and bright red in transmitted light when mounted in lactophenol makes C. bicolor a well-defined morphospecies when compared to all other species of Cribraria. The stability of the taxonomic characters of the species was confirmed by an examination of a number of specimens.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 480 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-290
Author(s):  
QI LIU ◽  
JIAJIA LI ◽  
QUANXI WANG ◽  
JOHN PATRICK KOCIOLEK Patrick Kociolek ◽  
Shulian Xie

A new species, Encyonema oblonga Liu & Xie, is collected during a survey of the freshwater diatom flora of Manghe River, Shanxi, China. The valves of this new species are oblong with rounded apices and have the features typical of Encyonema, including complex areolae. We compare the new species with the most similar taxa, E. leei, E. leei var. sinensis and E. appalachianum and consider that  E. leei var. sinensis is the valid name.  The morphology of E. oblonga is documented with light and scanning electron microscopy.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 388 (2) ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
BART VAN DE VIJVER ◽  
SANDRA WILFERT ◽  
VACLAV HOUK ◽  
DAVID M. JOHN

During a diatom survey of some samples from Ascension Island, a remote island located in the southern Atlantic Ocean, an unknown melosiroid diatom species was studied using both light and scanning electron microscopy. It proved to be a new species described as Angusticopula rowlingiana sp. nov. and characterized by a large number of narrow copulae in the girdle, a marginal ring of small granules, very small pores covering the entire valve face and occasionally having internal valves.                The new species is compared with all Angusticopula species known worldwide and with several Melosira species showing a similar combination of characters. Short notes on its ecology are included.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 496 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
HRISTINA KOCHOSKA ◽  
DUŠICA ZAOVA ◽  
ANASTASIJA VIDESKA ◽  
DANIJELA MITIC-KOPANJA ◽  
HRISTINA NAUMOVSKA ◽  
...  

Lowland intermittent ponds, although biologically important, are poorly studied water habitats. During the analyses of the material taken from lowland pond in Pelagonia Valley, and Vitachevo, Republic of North Macedonia, the diatom Sellaphora pelagonica sp. nov. was recorded and described based on light and scanning electron microscopy. The species is characterized by a strictly linear valve outline with parallel to slightly concave margins and broadly rounded ends, 15.0–40.0 µm long and 5.0–7.0 µm wide. These features, together with raphe structure and areolar shape are compared with several similar taxa currently ascribed to Sellaphora.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 508 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
DMITRY CHUDAEV ◽  
INGRID JÜTTNER ◽  
BART VAN DE VIJVER

During a survey of the diatom flora of the Adegoy River (Krasnodar Territory, Russia), an unknown Fragilaria species (Bacillariophyta) was found that could not be identified using the currently available literature and here we describe it as a new species. The morphology of Fragilaria irregularis sp. nov. was studied using light and scanning electron microscopy and compared to similar species including Fragilaria deformis, F. rinoi, F. septentrionalis and Fragilariforma bicapitata. It differed from these taxa in several characters. Most observed valves showed an irregular striation pattern, a feature not observed in other species. Other important differences include valve outline (linear with parallel margins) and stria density (7–14 in 10 µm, lower compared to all other species). The new taxon has a linear valve outline with parallel to weakly convex margins, subcapitate apices and a very irregular, coarse striation pattern.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 423 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-104
Author(s):  
FEN LUO ◽  
QI YANG ◽  
KAIJUAN GUO ◽  
TENGTENG LIU ◽  
QUANXI WANG ◽  
...  

A new diatom species, Neidiomorpha dianshaniana sp. nov., found in Dianshan Lake in Shanghai, China, is described herein. The morphology of N. dianshaniana has been documented by light and scanning electron microscopy. Neidiomorpha dianshaniana valves are elliptical in outline with rostrate apices. Raphe is almost straight and filiform. The axial area is narrow and linear. The central area is small, round to transversely elliptical or irregular. Striae are slightly radiate and almost parallel near the apices. Puncta are arranged in undulating longitudinal rows. Neidiomorpha dianshaniana’s most visible feature is its lack of central constriction, in which respect it differs from the three other species in the genus Neidiomorpha.


1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 534-538
Author(s):  
Mario Werner ◽  
Albert L Jones

Abstract To improve the characterization of electrophoretic lipoprotein subfractions, we developed two new techniques for analyzing lipoproteins after electrophoresis on thin agarose layers. Overlay with antisera exactly localizes specific apoproteins without any distortion caused by antigen diffusion; electron microscopy of eluted fractions determines the varying particle-size distribution. Applied together, these methods can detect individual differences between hyperlipemic samples that are not immediately apparent in the electrophoretic pattern, and should provide valuable new insight into the classification of hyperlipoproteinemias.


2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 573-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Riaux-Gobin ◽  
Luc Ector ◽  
Andrzej Witkowski ◽  
Anton Igersheim

Abstract In the historical Grunow collection in Vienna, a piece of a broken slide covered with mica contained diatom material from Porto Subzanski, a coastal environment in Croatia. This material was examined in scanning electron microscopy. Several poorly documented or improperly assigned taxa within the Achnanthales, namely in Amphicocconeis and Cocconeis, were re-examined. A new combination of Amphicocconeis and a new species of Cocconeis are proposed. The new species, Cocconeis subzanskiensis, is closely related to Cocconeis placentula, except for the lack of a characteristic hyaline sub-marginal rim on the raphe valve, and is compared with other marine taxa pertaining to the same group. Recently described in tropical environments, Cocconeis coronatoides has been found in the Grunow material.


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