Medlinella amphoroidea gen. et sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from the neck skin of Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)
Author
Frankovich, Thomas A.
Florida International University, Florida Bay Interagency Science Center, 98630 Overseas Highway, Key Largo, FL 33037, USA
frankovich@virginia.edu
Author
Ashworth, Matt P.
University of Texas, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Author
Sullivan, Michael J.
130 Martinique Drive, Madison, MS 39110, USA.
Author
Veselá, Jana
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA.
Author
Stacy, Nicole I.
University of Florida, College of Veterinary Medicine, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Gainesville, FL 32641, USA.
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Phytotaxa
2016
2016-08-29
272
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.272.2.1
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.272.2.1
1179-3163
13647233
Tripterion philoderma
Holmes, Nagasawa & Takano
(
Fig. 32
)
LM morphology: Valve morphometrics are as follows: length 8.5–28.0 μm, maximum width 2.0–4.0 μm, length-to-width ratio 3.3–7.5, n = 75. The transapical striae are radiate in the middle of the valve,
22–26 in
10 μm, n = 34, becoming parallel to slightly convergent at the apices, up to
29 in
10 μm, n = 34. Copulae are open at one end and do not have septa (arrows in
Fig. 32
).
Type:—
SOUTH AFRICA
. Milnerton, specimens from the teeth of
Mesoplodon layardii
(strap-toothed whale),
33° 52’ S
18° 29’ E
,
R
.
W
.
Holmes
,
6 April 1978
(
holotype
ANSP
!
GC
17182a).