Eunotia subherkiniensis
Lange-Bertalot 2011 Category: Eunotioid
BASIONYM: Eunotia subherkiniensis Lange-Bertalot 2011
REPORTED AS: Eunotia praerupta var. bigibba (Krammer and Lange-Bertalot 1991, Taf. 150, Figs 1-7)
LM scalebar = 10 µm = 80 pixels.
Observations
Contributor: Paula Furey - March 2012
Length Range: 15-33 µm
Width Range: 4.5-8.5 µm
Striae in 10 µm: 11-14 in the center valve
Description
Ventral margin is moderately concave to almost straight (smaller valves). Dorsal margin is convex and biundulate in medium-sized to larger valves and weakly biundulate to straight in smaller valves (not shown above). The double undulations on the dorsal margins are often quite variable in height and shape from consistently rounded to more pointed. The apices are obliquely capitate and dorsally reflexed in medium-sized to larger valves and truncate in smaller valves. Helictoglossae positioned somewhat distant from the apices. The distal raphe ends are curve on to the valve face and are clearly visible in the LM. Striae are radiate. One apical rimoportula is present just dorsal to the center of the apex (visible in SEM). Also under SEM, the internal openings of the areolae are aligned in a narrow groove.
Eunotia subherkiniensis has consistently been recorded under incorrect names in North America, primarily as E. bigibba Kützing sensu Grunow. The illustrations of E. bigibba (E. praerupta var. bigibba) in Krammer & Lange-Bertalot (1991, Taf. 150: Figs 1 – 7) are in error and the correct type of E. bigibba is described in Kützing 1849 and a lectotype is designated and illustrated in Lange-Bertalot et al. 2011 (Pl. 83, fig. 1).
Original Description
Basionym: Eunotia subherkiniensis
Author: Lange-Bertalot 2011
Length Range: 10-30 µm
Width Range: 5-8 µm
Striae in 10 µm: 12-15
Original Description
Valves with moderately concave to almost straight (smallest specimens) ventral margins. Dorsal margins from strongly to slightly bigibbous, inflations of smallest specimens merge to a single one. Ends more or less protracted obliquely capitate and dorsally reflexed, in smallest specimens only simply truncate. Length 10-30 μm, breadth 5-8 μm. Short terminal raphe fissures usually in somewhat distant position from the poles (as in E. bigibba, but unlike E. papiliofalsa). Striae 12-15/10μm, only little denser spaced at the ends than in the middle of the valves. Areolae not to resolve in LM, SEM ca. 40 / 10 μm (see Figs 95: 10, 11; 96: 1-6).
Original Images
Cite This Page:
Furey, P. (2012). Eunotia subherkiniensis. In Diatoms of the United States. Retrieved May 20, 2013, from http://westerndiatoms.colorado.edu/taxa/species/eunotia_subherkiniensis
Species: Eunotia subherkiniensis
Contributor: Paula Furey
Reviewer: Marina Potapova
Image Credit: Paula Furey
- Dorsal margin biundulate
- Apices obliquely capitate
- Apices dorsally recurved
- Striae radiate
The dorsal margin is convex and biundulate.The apices are obliquely capitate and dorsally reflexed in medium-sized to larger valves, truncate in smaller valves. Striae are radiate. Internally, the openings of the areolae are aligned in a narrow groove (SEM).
Compare
In E. subherkiniensis, the apices are more dorsally recurved and the dorsal undulations are more pronounced than in E. kociolekii. Compared to E. bigibba, valves of E. subherkiniensis are shorter and narrower. Compared to E. herkiniensis, E. subherkiniensis is generally shorter and narrower with a lower stria density.
Eunotia kociolekii
Eunotia bigibba
Kützing
Eunotia herkiniensis
Grunow
Citations
Furey, P.C., Lowe, R.L. and Johansen, J.R. (2011). Eunotia Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyta) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Bibliotheca Diatomologica 56: 1-134.
Krammer, K. and Lange-Bertalot, H. (1991). Bacillariophyceae. 3. Teil: Centrales, Fragilariaceae, Eunotiaceae. . In Ettl, H., Gerloff, J., Heynig, H. & Mollenhauer, D. (Eds.). Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa. 2(3): 1-576. Gustav Fisher Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.
Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species Algarum. Lipsiae. F.A. Brockhaus, 922 pp.
Lange-Bertalot, H., Bak, M., Witkowski, A. and Tagliaventi, N. (2011). Eunotia and some related genera. Diatoms of the European Inland Waters and Comparable Habitats. 6: 747 pp.
Links & ID's
Index Nominum Algarum (INA)
California Academy of Sciences (CAS)
North American Diatom Ecological Database (NADED)
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Autecology Discussion
Found in streams, wet walls and waterfalls, often epiphytic on bryophytes.