Fallacia formosa Zaova & al 2025

Publication Details
Fallacia formosa Zaova & al 2025: 85, 86, figs 205: 1-20

Published in: Zaova, D., Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., Ognjanova-Rumenova, N. & Levkov, Z. (2025). Fossil diatom diversity in Lake Ohrid over the last 1.36 Ma. In: Iconographia Diatomologica Annotated Diatom Micrographs. Vol. 27. (Van de Vijver, B. Eds), pp. [i-ii], 1–749. Oberreifenberg: Koeltz Botanical Books.

Publication date: Arrived by courier 8 March 2025

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Fallacia is Fallacia pygmaea (Kützing) Stickle & D.G.Mann.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Type Information
Type locality: Republic of North Macedonia, Lake Ohrid, core DEEP-5045-1 (41.049167°N, 20.715000°E); (Zaova & al. 2025: 86) Holotype: sediment sample from 415 mcd.; Macedonian National Diatom coll.; 009805 (Zaova & al. 2025: 85, 86) Notes: Isootype: BM 109035.

Fossil
Described as a fossil.

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), beautiful, handsome.

Created: 28 May 2025 by G.M. Guiry.

Last updated: 28 May 2025

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G.M. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 28 May 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 07 June 2025