Brockmanniella Hasle, Stosch & Syvertsen, 1983
Holotype species: Brockmanniella brockmannii (Hustedt) Hasle, Stosch & Syvertsen
Original publication and holotype designation: Hasle, G.R., Stosch, H.A. von & Syvertsen, E.E. (1983). Cymatosiraceae, a new diatom family. Bacillaria 6: 9-156.
Description: Cells attached to form long chains which may be twisted. Cells rectangular (oval in small cells) with slight apical and central expansions of the valve. Sibling valves touch at the centres and may also be in contact at the apices. One plastid, constricted in the centre and lying along one side of the cell. Common on the sediments of the North Sea and also appearing in the plankton. Probably widespread: our samples were cultures from around the British Isles but we have also found it off Florida. Valves linear, lanceolate to oval with prominent offset ocelluli on apical elevations. A central raised fascia is devoid of areolae, except along the margin. There is no obvious sternum. The areolae are in transverse rows and are closed towards the outside by delicate vela. A single row of spines occurs around the margin just above the outer ring of areolae and a few spines may occur scattered on the central area and elsewhere. The valve surface may be finely granular. Pili are absent. Ocelluli occur diagonally opposite one another and in a clockwise position; they have a slight rim. An offset process (rimoportula?) occurs on one valve only. Cingulum of numerous simple, slightly porous copulae, the last one having a row of granules close to the abvalvar edge (Hasle et al., 1983).
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2015-12-09 by M.D. Guiry.Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Nikolaev, V.A., Kociolek, J.P., Fourtanier, E., Barron, J.A. & Harwood, D.M. (2001). Late Cretaceous diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) from the Marca Shale member of the Moreno Formation, California. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 152: 1-119, 39 plates.
Comments: This genus was erected for a species previously placed in Plagiogramma (P. brockmannii), based on its lack of pili and pseudosepta. As in other related genera the initial cells differ somewhat, e.g. they lack spines. We have not observed the concave and convex thecae recorded by Hasle et al. in post-auxospore material. The genus is quite close to Cymatosira belgica and to Plagiogrammopsis vanheirckii but we agree fully with Hasle et al. that it is preferable to maintain separate genera when there is a distinction involving such prominent features as pili and pseudosepta.
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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. 09 December 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 April 2024
