Pseudoguinardia von Stosch, 1986
Holotype species: Pseudoguinardia recta Stosch
Original publication and holotype designation: Stosch, H.A. von (1986). Some marine diatoms from the Australian Region, especially from Port Phillip Bay and tropical North-eastern Australia. II* Survey of the Genus Palmeria and of the Family Lithodesmiaceae including the new genus Lithodesmioides. Brunonia 9: 57-74.
Description: Colonies up to 17 cells long, cylindrical and straight, separable but not dissociating upon fixation and, apart from pervalvarly rectangular notches, without intercellular spaces. Cells in girdle view rectangular, with gently rounded corners and flat valves; pervalvar axis deep; the only distinctive structure in girdle view a large rimoportula at the base of every mantle, which are situated on the same side of the colony. Chromatophores globular, numerous; each chromatophore with large pyrenoid. Valves circular, flat, with scattered poroids on valve face and mantle and marked by a low elliptical submarginal ridge which appears to separate the valve face from low mantle. A large rimoportula located on mantle, close to valve face; appears as a ca 1_m long slit flush with the surface of the mantle, but surrounded by a protruding siliceous thickening; slit parallel or somewhat oblique to valvar plane; a small flap from the mantle (false antiligula) extends over the large rimoportula. A ring of small rimoportulae locataed somewhat more distally on mantle; slits ca 200 nm long and parallel to pervalvar axis. A pseudonodulus, ca 3 _m, with one to several pores, located on periphery of valve face, appears as slight circular elevation. Valve bilaterally symmetrical about a diameter that connects large rimoportula with pseudonodule. A 'fontanelle', faintly visible by LM on valve face, variable in shape but coinciding grossly with symmetry axis, confined by low costae on long sides and extending near marginal ridge; interior of fontanelle marked by scattered poroids and short, irregular costae with stubby branches that may or may not connect with fontanelle-defining costae; numerous narrow, branched or unbranched costae extend from submarginal ridge towards center of valve face. Cingulum composed of numerous open bands; openings and ligulae form two opposite rows. Valvocopula lacks ligula and antiligula, a shallow excision accomodates false antiligula of valve. Most copulae with blunt or bifurcated ligula and no antiligula. Plurae, more delicate and narrower than other bands, with antiligulae. Planktonic in warmer water's of world's oceans.
Information contributed by: M.C. Amspoker. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2011-02-13 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Tomas, C.R., Eds (1996). Identifying marine diatoms and dinoflagellates. pp. 1-858. San Diego: Academic Press Inc.
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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. 13 February 2011. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 27 April 2024
