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Taxonomic revision of three diatoms found in L ake M alawi: A frocymbella brunii ( F ricke) comb. nov., A frocymbella rossii ( K ociolek & S toermer) comb. nov., and A ulacoseira euareolata ( O . M üller) comb. nov. et nom. nov
Author(s) -
Shinohara Kohei,
Maruyama Atsushi,
Rusuwa Bosco,
Ohtsuka Taisuke
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
phycological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.438
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1440-1835
pISSN - 1322-0829
DOI - 10.1111/pre.12036
Subject(s) - diatom , biology , botany , taxon
Summary Based on epilithic diatom samples collected from the rocky littoral zone of L ake M alawi (102 diatom taxa belonging to 34 genera were listed in the Supporting Information) we proposed the transfer of three taxa to new genera. A frocymbella brunii ( F ricke) comb. nov. was transferred from G omphonema because of its dorsiventral valve and its transapically elongated dorsal stigma. A frocymbella rossii ( K ociolek & S toermer) comb. nov. was also transferred from G omphocymbella , which is actually a synonym of G omphonema . A ulacoseira euareolata ( O . M üller) comb. nov. et nom. nov. was transferred from M elosira because of the presence of linking spines and mantle areolae, and its specific epithet was replaced because of homonymy with A ulacoseira areolata M oisseeva.