Banquisia Paddock, 1988

Holotype species: Banquisia belgicae (Van Heurck) Paddock

Description: Valves laminar, highly vaulted with flattened faces; areolae with longitudinally aligned slit-like foramina arranged into transverse striae. Raphe without fibulae, ridged; raphe ridge in girdle view with a distinct bow-like outline, clearly depressed at the central nodule and ca. two-thirds the distance from either pole. A pair of raphe fins occur at or near the subpolar depressions; these fins are proximate but not opposite on each side of the raphe fissure. Raphe fins are not present at the central nodule although a longitudinal crescentic thickening, accentuation of the median interstriae and the absence of puncta contribute to form a small central area. Large helictoglossae occur internally at each pole; terminal raphe pores large, rounded. Terminal micropyles absent from valve poles. Subantarctic, marine. Recorded from "coloured" ice at ca. 65%S, 64% W and Signy Island, South Orkney (ca. 61% S, 46% W).

Information contributed by: D. B. Czarnecki. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2005-06-28 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Hasle, G.R. & Syvertsen, E.E. (1996). Marine diatoms. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 5-385. San Diego: Academic Press.

Comments: Scott & Thomas (2005: 148) record this genus as a member of the Family Naviculaceae.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 28 June 2005. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024