Hippodonta fujiannensis sp. nov. (Bacillariophyceae), a new epipsammic diatom from the low intertidal zone, Fujian Province, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 295 (1) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
LONG ZHAO ◽  
JIANDONG SUN ◽  
YAHUI GAO ◽  
JUNRONG LIANG ◽  
LIN SUN ◽  
...  

Hippodonta fujiannensis sp. nov., a new small-sized species of Hippodonta (Bacillariophyceae), was described from the low intertidal zone, Fujian Province, China. The morphology and ultrastructure were investigated by light and scanning electron microscopy, which revealed the following results: 1) valves asymmetrical, elliptic-lanceolate to rhombic-lanceolate with non-protracted apices; 2) raphe filiform, with teardrop-shaped and closely spaced central endings; 3) striae uniseriate, evenly spaced throughout the whole valve; 4) single row of lineolae around the valve apices. In particular, this new species is characterized by its dissymmetrical valves with one special column of lineolae which is close to the raphe and positioned perpendicular to the remaining lineolae of the striae, on only one side of the valves. Hippodonta fujiannensis is epipsammic and inhabits the marine environment. Conventional morphometric analyses were employed to elucidate the differences between this new species and several taxa similar in valve morphology, and the results are discussed.

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 308 (2) ◽  
pp. 249 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHONGYAN ZHANG ◽  
PATRICK RIOUAL ◽  
YUMEI PENG ◽  
XIAOPING YANG ◽  
ZHANGDONG JIN ◽  
...  

This paper describes a new Cymbella species from an alpine lake in the Pamir Mountains, NW China, with the aid of light and scanning electron microscopy and morphometric analyses. The morphology of the new species, named Cymbella pamirensis, is discussed and compared to similar species. The main morphometric features distinguishing Cymbella pamirensis from similar species of Cymbella are the outline and size of the valves. Cymbella pamirensis has been observed in surface sediment and core samples from Lake Sate Baile Dikuli, an alkaline, mesotrophic lake of the Pamir Mountains.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 186 (2) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUMEI PENG

A new medium-sized species of Hippodonta (Bacillariophyceae) is described from Lake Qinghai, China. The morphology and ultrastructure of Hippodonta qinghainensis sp. nov. are described using light and scanning electron microscopy. This new species is compared with similar species of Hippodonta using conventional and geometric morphometric analyses. Hippodonta qinghainensis can be separated from the other species of Hippodonta by a unique combination of characters that include an elliptic-lanceolate to rhombic-lanceolate valve shape, non protracted apices, the absence of fascia, relatively coarse, uniseriate striae and the presence of two rows of lineolae around the valves apices.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 393 (2) ◽  
pp. 131 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROSALINA STANCHEVA

Planothidium sheathii sp. nov., a new species from rivers in California, USA, is described based on light and scanning electron microscopy. P. sheathii has broadly lanceolate to elliptic valves with obtusely rounded apices and a unique combination of morphological features, as follows: 1) cavum with broad hood aperture that flares out at the valve margin with open borders fused with the neighboring virgae on SV, 2) multiseriate striae, composed of five to six rows of same sized areolae on both valves, interrupted at valve mantle junction, and 3) areolae groups on valve mantle, with rounded areolae on RV, and rounded and elongated areolae on SV. Valve morphology of P. sheathii is discussed in comparison with similar freshwater taxa, from which the new species is clearly distinct.


Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 312 (2) ◽  
pp. 228 ◽  
Author(s):  
QI LIU ◽  
WEIWEI WU ◽  
JIE WANG ◽  
JIA FENG ◽  
JUNPING LV ◽  
...  

Nitzschia shanxiensis nom. nov., stat. nov., described originally from Hunan Province, China as N. sinuata var. constricta Chen & Zhu, was observed from Shanxi and Guizhou Provinces. The morphology of N. shanxiensis is documented by light (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and discussed in detail, including a comparison with the other similar species. Nitzschia shhanxiensis has a constricted middle portion of the valve, fibulae crossing about 1/2 of the valve face, and lacks a central nodule. In addition to the new species, N. tabellaria (Grunow) Grunow in Cleve & Grunow was also identified from the same locality, and its valve morphology is also documented with LM and SEM. We comment on other species of diatoms related to N. shanxiensis and N. tabellaria and their relationship to other related genera, including Grunowia and Denticula.


Nematology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 673-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian King ◽  
Manuel Mundo-Ocampo ◽  
Paul De Ley

Abstract Xyala finneyae sp. n. from the intertidal zone in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico, is described using light and scanning electron microscopy. The new species is characterised by the first ring of cuticular crests being at least twice as long as the crests on the remaining annules, vulva at 70-76% of body length from anterior end, sexual dimorphism in amphid fovea size with females having a smaller amphidial opening. Xyala finneyae sp. n. is most similar to the type species, X. striata, and to X. oxybiotica. It differs from the former in having the first ring of crests markedly longer than all subsequent ones, in having shorter outer labial and cephalic setae on the lip region (8-9 and 15-18 vs 12 and 22 μm, respectively), in a more anterior position of vulva (V = 70-76 vs 79-81) and in shorter spicules (29-31 vs 44-47 μm). From X. oxybiotica, it differs in the more spherical lip region with thinner cuticle on the lips (vs lips more protruding anteriad and with thicker cuticle in optical section), shorter outer labial and cephalic setae on the lip region (8-9 and 15-18 vs 13 and 23 μm, respectively), a more anterior vulva (V = 70-76 vs 81-89) and shorter spicules (29-31 vs 35 μm).


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4679 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL STEC

A new species of the Mesobiotus harmsworthi group is described from Datanla Waterfall amusement park in Lâm Đồng Province, Vietnam. An integrative taxonomy approach was applied, by combining morphological and morphometric analyses using light contract microscopy (LCM)) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with genetic analysis (18S rRNA, 28S rRNA, ITS-2 and COI markers), to cross-verify the status of the newly discovered population as a new species. By the presence of fully developed areolation around egg processes bases and well developed oral cavity armature (OCA), with all three bands of teeth visible under (LCM), the new species, Mesobiotus datanlanicus sp. nov., is most similar to seven taxa from the harmsworthi complex: M. barbarae (Kaczmarek, Michalczyk & Degma, 2007), M. hieronimi (Pilato & Claxton, 1988), M. insanis Mapalo, Stec, Mirano-Bascos & Michalczyk, 2017, M. neuquensis (Rossi, Claps & Ardohain, 2009), M. nuragicus (Pilato & Sperlinga, 1975), M. pseudoliviae (Pilato & Binda, 1996), M. pseudonuragicus (Pilato, Binda, & Lisi, 2004), but differs from them mainly by some specific characters of the egg and adult morphology as well as by morphometrics. 


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 ◽  
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 494 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-218
Author(s):  
DMITRY CHUDAEV ◽  
INGRID JÜTTNER ◽  
ZLATKO LEVKOV

This is the first detailed taxonomic study of the genus Navicula in the Krasnodar Territory of the Caucasus region, Russia. During the study of the genus in waterbodies of the Adegoy River valley 15 taxa were recorded. Two species, N. adegoyensis sp. nov. and N. pseudocryptofallax sp. nov., are described as new to science. Their morphology is studied by light and scanning electron microscopy, and comparisons with morphologically similar species are provided. The use of the name N. avenacea for N. lanceolata sensu auct. is discussed. Navicula diversity was higher in the Adegoy River than in pools elsewhere in the river valley.


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