Studies on type material from Kützing’s diatom collection VI: The identity of Diatoma liber Suhr (1831)
Author
Williams, David M.
text
Phytotaxa
2021
2021-12-17
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journal article
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10.11646/phytotaxa.528.3.6
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Biddulphia septemlocularis
Kützing (1844
, p. 138)
Kützing described
Biddulphia septemlocularis
Kützing (1844
, p. 138, pl. 19, fig. II, 1, 2) also from Canary Island material (“Unter Algen von den canarischen Inseln”). The alternative name ‘
septemcostata
’ was used in Eulenstein’s Catalogue of Kützing’s collection, this name being found only in the herbarium; there is also the additional unpublished name ‘
Isthmosira
[
Isthmia
] canariensis
’.
Eulenstein’s Catalogue indicates ‘Kützing 823’ (BM 19390, “Ins Canar.”) was also the source for the original material of
Biddulphia septemlocularis
. Inspection of the mica for ‘Kützing 823’ reveals only a few complete frustules so no SEM study was attempted.
The images on which this description is based are from BM 19390 (‘Kützing 823’) (
Figs 2–6
). Inspection of BM 19343 (‘Kützing 766’) yielded no whole specimens of
Diatoma liber
, the sample being dominated by
Grammatophora marina
(Lyngbye)
Kützing (1844
, p. 128, pl. 17, fig. XXIV, 1–6, pl. 18, fig. I, 1–5). The specimens figured are all confirmed as a species of
Biddulphia
.