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Observations
| Observations: | Sarah Spaulding and Rhea Esposito |
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| Length: | 7-29 µm |
| Width: | 5.5-8 µm |
| Striae: | 16-20 in 10 µm |
Description:
Valves elliptical to elliptical-lanceolate with rounded lateral margins that are often slightly rostrate on larger specimens. Axial area present, widening towards the central portion of the valve. Central area an acute-angled sub-fascia, usually with a single row of poroids around the outer edge. A solitary stigma present in the stauroneiform central area. Raphe straight; median and terminal raphe endings usually hooked in the opposite direction of the stigma. Striae radiate throughout, becoming more densely spaced at the poles. This species seems to be closely related to L. muticopsis in size and striae range, but the valve margin is much more oval.
| Morphology: | Naviculoid |
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| Distribution: | Widespread |
Autecology:
Notes:
McMurdo Dry Valleys Waterbodies with Luticola mutica
- Adams Stream
- Aiken Creek
- Blue Lake
- Bohner Stream
- Bowles Creek
- Canada Glacier
- Canada Stream
- Commonwealth Glacier
- Commonwealth Stream
- Crescent Stream
- Delta Stream
- Garwood Stream
- Green Creek
- Harnish Creek
- Harnish Creek Tributary
- Huey Creek
- Hughes Glacier Pond
- Lawson Creek
- Little Sharpe
- Lost Seal Stream
- Lyons Tributary (Mason?)
- Many Glaciers Pond
- McKay Creek
- Miers Stream
- Onyx River
- Priscu Stream
- Spaulding Pond
- Taylor Glacier
- Upland Pond
- Von Guerard Stream
- Wharton Creek
- Wormherder Creek
Original Type Description
| Author: | Kützing 1844 |
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Original Description:
N. minuta, laevissima, a latere secundario lanceolato-elliptica, apertura media et terminalibus distinctis. Long. 1/150 ? 1/130
New combination
| Author: | Mann, D.G. 1990 |
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Citations
Index Nominum Algarum (INA):
- Original
- New Combination
- If an INA link is available, it will be shown above
- The INA is a bibliographic reference "card file" for algal taxonomy, containing nearly 200,000 names of algae (in the broad sense).
Publications (by year):
- Kützing 1844. Bacillarien: 108, pl. 30: fig. 70. [citation 78(60)]
- Hustedt 1966. p. 583, fig. 1592, a-f. [citation 50(19)]
- Mann 1990. In Round et al., The Diatoms, pg. 670. [citation 104(90)]
- Krammer and Lange-Bertalot 1986. p. 149, fig. 61, figs. 1-11. [citation 74(49)]
