Published October 12, 2018 | Version v1
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Nitzschia lorenziana Grunow 1879

  • 1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 2. Biology Department, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois, USA
  • 3. Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italia

Description

Nitzschia lorenziana Grunow in Cleve & Möller (1879: 208) (Fig. 94)

References: Krammer & Large-Bertalot 1988, p. 125, pl. 86, figs 6–10; Witkowski et al. 2000, p. 392, pl. 210, figs 24, 25, pl. 211, fig. 3, pl. 212, figs 1–3.

Features: Length 90–123 μm, width 4–5 μm, fibulae 7–9 in μm 10, striae 16–18 in 10 μm.

Description: Valves linear lanceolate, sigmoid with long rostrate apices. Raphe eccentric, fibulae unevenly spaced, the two centric fibulae are more spaced.

Ecology and Distribution: A widespread brackish water species. Previously reported from the Gulf (Hendey 1970, Al-Yamani & Saburova 2011). Frequent in Basra corals.

Notes

Published as part of Al-Handal, Adil Y., Thomas, Evan W. & Pennesi, Chiara, 2018, Marine benthic diatoms in the newly discovered coral reefs, off Basra coast, Southern Iraq, pp. 111-152 in Phytotaxa 372 (2) on page 139, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.372.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13728822

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Grunow
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Psocodea
Family
Menoponidae
Genus
Nitzschia
Species
lorenziana
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Nitzschia lorenziana Grunow, 1879 sec. Al-Handal, Thomas & Pennesi, 2018

References

  • Cleve, P. T. & Moller, J. D. (1879) Diatoms. Part IV. No. 169 - 216. Esatas Edquists Boktryckeri, Upsala.
  • Witkowski, A., Lange-Bertalot, H. & Metzeltin, D. (2000) Diatom Flora of Marine Coasts Iconographia Diatomologica 7: 1 - 925.
  • Hendey, N. I. (1970) Some littoral diatoms of Kuwait. Nova Hedwigia 31: 101 - 168