Orthoseira hamadryas (Ehrenberg) Houck, Klee & H.Tanaka 2017
Publication Details
Orthoseira hamadryas (Ehrenberg) Houck, Klee & H.Tanaka 2017: 32, pl. 83: figs 1-12
Published in: Houk, V., Klee, R. & Tanaka, H. (2017). Atlas of freshwater centric diatoms with a brief key and descriptions. Second emended edition of Part I and II. Melosiraceae, Liparogyraceae, Paraliaceae and Aulacoseiraceae. Fottea 17(Supplement): 1-616.
Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Orthoseira is Melosira americana Kützing.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Stephanosira hamadryas Ehrenberg
Type Information
Type locality: Venezuela, tropical rainforest at La Guayra, on roots of Cheilanthes glabra [a fern]; (Houk & al. 2017: 33) Notes: A lectotype does not seem to have been selected (if necessary) but original material is at stripe 190206, Case 19, Box 2B, Ehrenberg Coll. at B.
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 24 April 2023 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 24 April 2023
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 April 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 30 April 2024
