Benthic marine diatom flora of Guam: new records, redescription of Psammodictyon pustulatum n. comb., n. stat., and three new species (Colliculoamphora gabgabensis, Lauderia excentrica, and Rhoiconeis pagoensis)
Author
Lobban, Christopher S.
Division of Natural Sciences, University of Guam, Mangilao, GU 83823, USA e-mail: clobban @ guam. net
clobban@guam.net
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Micronesica
2015
2015
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journal article
299054
10.5281/zenodo.12117576
9ec266f5-1dc7-4272-9fbc-67c7f2b0f5aa
0026-279X
12117576
Mastogloia emarginata
Hustedt
Figs 51–55
Section:
Ellipticae
Ref. illus.:
Hustedt 1931
–1959, fig. 896; Pennesi et al. 2013, figs 65, 66 (
lectotype
specimen) Samples:
GU44R-2, GU44AU-1; GU53E-2; GU66F-4
; GU55B-4
Dimensions: Length 18–20 µm; width 9–13 µm; striae
20–23 in
10 µm; partecta
2 in
10 µm.
Diagnostics: Small oval valves with 3–4 concave partecta on each side, reaching the apex, pore on the outer side of each partectum distinctively visible in LM (
Fig. 54
, arrows). Longitudinal striae nearly straight, coarser than the transapical striae, resulting in rectangular areolae.
Comments: Differs from
M. ovulum
Hustedt
, which has finer, circular areolae, and partectal pores that are not evident in LM. As noted in the errata to
Lobban et al. (2012)
, the specimen given there in pl. 33, figs 9, 10 for
M. ovulum
was misidentified and is given here correctly as
M. emarginata
; the specimen of
M. ovulum
posted on the web in its place is printed here as
Figs 56, 57
; see
Jordan
et al. 2009
–2015, /taxa_id/585541, for
SEM
images of
M. ovulum
. Besides the unique pores,
M. emarginata
differs from
M. ovalis
A. Schmidt
in having partecta reaching the apex and from
M. matthaei
(see below) and
M. stellae
(Pennesi et al. 2013, figs 45–52, 57–60) in the number of partecta as well as characters of the areolae.