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Neocalyptrella robusta Hernandez-Becerril & Meave

  • 1. Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea, Galiano Island, Canada & Advanced Microscopy Facility, Bob Wright Centre, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  • 2. Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea, Galiano Island, Canada
  • 3. Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • 4. Hakai Institute, Heriot Bay, Canada & Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • 5. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada & Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea, Galiano Island, Canada

Description

Neocalyptrella robusta (G. Norman ex Ralfs) Hernández-Becerril & Meave

Rhizosolenia robusta Ralfs 1861: 866, pl. VIII, fig. 42, in Pritchard (1861) — Cupp (1943).

Neocalyptrella robusta — Hernández-Becerril and Meave del Castillo (1996); Hernández-Becerril and Maeve del Castillo (1997): 329; Hasle and Syvertsen (1997); Sunesen and Sar (2007); Hoppenrath et al. (2009); Yun and Lee (2011); Boonprakob et al. (2021); Guiry and Guiry (2025).

Description

Cells in valvar cross section elliptical; cells in girdle view sigmoid, curved and crescent-shaped. Length 227–240 (in culture) to 477 (500–1000) µm, diameter 59 (109, in culture) (40–400) µm. Valves noticeably conical, with longitudinal undulations converging near truncated apex. Valve apex has calyptra, which bears a needle-like external tube or process that is a complex rimportula. Valve areolae 13–20 in 10 µm arranged in regular, straight striations and with secondary quincunx pattern of 22–25 in 10 µm.

Notes

The morphology of these LM images agrees with literature, especially the images and description in Sunesen and Sar (2007). Only observed in December. Rare in Galiano Island waters. iNaturalist ID: 48460936 (Fig. 28).

Notes

Published as part of Webber, Mark, Humphrey, Elaine, van Asselt, Arjan, Chang, Alice, Morien, Evan & Simon, Andrew D. F., 2026, Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) of the Salish Sea, Northeast Pacific: annotated checklist and new species reports, pp. e 189060 in Biodiversity Data Journal 14 on page e189060, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.14.e189060

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hernandez-Becerril & Meave
Kingdom
Chromista
Phylum
Ochrophyta
Order
Rhizosoleniales
Family
Rhizosoleniaceae
Genus
Neocalyptrella
Species
robusta
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Pritchard A. 1861 A history of infusoria, including the Desmidiaceae and Diatomaceae, British and foreign Fourth edition. Enlarged and revised by Arlidge JT, Archer W, Ralfs J, Williamson WC, Pritchard A Whittaker and Co London, England 968 10.5962/bhl.title.101827
  • Cupp E. E. 1943 Marine plankton diatoms of the west coast of North America Bulletin of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography 5 1 1 238
  • Hernández-Becerril D. U., Meave del Castillo M. E. 1996 The marine planktonic diatom Rhizosolenia robusta (Bacillariophyta): morphological studies support its transfer to a new genus, Calyptrella gen. nov. Phycologia 35 3 198 203 10.2216/i0031-8884-35-3-198.1
  • Hernández-Becerril D. U., Maeve del Castillo M. E. 1997 Neocalyptrella, gen. nov., a new name to replace Calyptrella Hernández-Becerril et Maeve Phycologia 36 4 329 10.2216/i0031-8884-36-4-329.1
  • Hasle G. R., Syvertsen E. E. 1997 Marine diatoms Thomas C. R. Identifying marine phytoplankton Academic Press San Diego, USA 874 10.17031/1629
  • Sunesen I., Sar E. A. 2007 Marine diatoms from Buenos Aires coastal waters (Argentina). IV. Rhizosolenia s. str., Neocalyptrella, Pseudosolenia, Proboscia. Phycologia 46 6 628 643 10.2216/07-13.1
  • Hoppenrath M., Elbrachter M., Drebes G. 2009 Marine phytoplankton. Selected microphytoplankton species from the North Sea around Helgoland and Sylt Schweizerbart Science Publishers Stuttgart, Germany 264
  • Yun S. M., Lee J. H. 2011 Morphology and distribution of some marine diatoms, family Rhizosoleniaceae, genus Proboscia, Neocalyptrella, Pseudosolenia, Guinardia, and Dactyliosolen in Korean coastal waters Algae 26 4 299 315 10.4490/algae.2011.26.4.299
  • Boonprakob Anusara, Lundholm Nina, Medlin L. K., Moestrup Øjvind 2021 The morphology and phylogeny of the diatom genera Rhizosolenia, Proboscia, Pseudosolenia and Neocalyptrella from the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea Diatom Research 36 3 143 184 10.1080/0269249X.2021.1957719
  • Guiry M. D., Guiry G. M. AlgalBase https://www.algaebase.org2025-10-20T00:46:21+00:00