Fragilariforma virescens
(Ralfs) Williams and Round 1988 Category: Araphid
BASIONYM: Fragilaria virescens Ralfs 1843
SYNONYM(S): Neofragilaria virescens (Ralfs) Williams and Round 1987
LM scalebar = 10 µm = 80 pixels.
Observations
Contributor: Eduardo Morales | Sarah Spaulding - October 2011
Length Range: 15-60 µm
Width Range: 6.5-7.0 µm
Striae in 10 µm: 20-22
Description
Valves linear to lanceolate with parallel or convex sides. Valves with rostrate, broadly rounded ends. The central area is narrow and linear. The valve face is flat. The valve face/mantle junction forms a sharp angle. The abvalvar edge of the mantle is parallel to the valve face/mantle junction. In girdle view, frustules are rectangular. Cells form short ribbon-like colonies, joined by linking spines. The axial area is linear. Striae are distinct, composed of round areolae. Areolae are uniform in size from axial area to valve mantle. Striae are parallel throughout the valve, and extend continuously onto the valve mantle, stopping shortly before the abvalvar mantle edge. Costae are wider than the striae. Spines are spatulate. Spines are present along the valve face edge, including the apices, and are located on the costae between striae. Well-developed, simple type, apical pore fields with round poroids are present. Pore fields are located on the junction between valve face and mantle. One rimoportula is present on each valve, located along a stria close to the axial area, expressed internally as a small labium. Copulae, or girdle bands, were not observed.
Original Description
Basionym: Fragilaria virescens
Author: Ralfs 1843
Length Range: µm
Striae in 10 µm:
Original Description
F. virescens. Frustules broad, with two evident puncta at each end; lateral surfaces turgid-lanceolate, constricted near the ends; striae none, or indistinct. Frag. pectinalis, Ehrenb. Die. Infus. p. 206. t. 6. fig. 1; Ptrich. Infus. p. 222. fig. 176.
Original Images
Cite This Page:
Morales, E., and Spaulding, S. (2011). Fragilariforma virescens. In Diatoms of the United States. Retrieved May 23, 2013, from http://westerndiatoms.colorado.edu/taxa/species/fragilariforma_virescens
Species: Fragilariforma virescens
Contributor: Eduardo Morales | Sarah Spaulding
Reviewer: Rex Lowe
Image Credit: Eduardo Morales and Sarah Spaulding
- Valves linear to lanceolate, with rostrate ends
- Sternum narrow
- Rimoportulae one
- Spines present
Valves are linear to lanceolate with rostrate, broadly rounded ends. In girdle view, frustules are rectangular with undulate ends. Striae are composed of round areolae. Spines are positioned on the costae. Two distinct, simple porefields are present at each apex, located on the valve mantle near the junction with the valve face.
Compare
Fragilariforma virescens differs from F. nitzschioides in the shape of the apices, stria density and the shape in girdle view. Stauroforma exiguiformis lacks rimoportulae and a distinct central sternum.
Fragilariforma nitzschioides
Stauroforma exiguiformis
(Lange-Bertalot) Flower, Jones and Round
Citations
Ralfs, J. (1843). On the Diatomaceae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 104-111, pl. 2.
Van Heurck, H. (1881). Synopsis des Diatomées de Belgique. Atlas. Ducaju & Cie., Anvers. pls 31-77.
Williams, D.M. (2001). Comments on the structure of "post-auxospore" valves of Fragilariforma virescens. In: Jahn, R., Kociolek, J.P., Witkowski, A and Compère, P. (eds), Lange-Bertalot-Festschrift: Studies on Diatoms. Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Lange-Bertalot on the occassion of his 65th Birthday. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. K.G. pp. 113-117.
Williams, D.M. and Round, F.E. (1988). Fragilariforma, nom. nov., a new generic name for Neofragilaria Williams & Round. Diatom Research 3: 265-267.
Links & ID's
Index Nominum Algarum (INA)
California Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Fragilariforma virescens CAS
Fragilariforma virescens CAS
North American Diatom Ecological Database (NADED)
NADED ID: 192008
Autecology Discussion
Frustules are linked by marginal spines to form colonies.