Achnanthes crosbyana Foged

Type slide

Lagoon on the Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand. Foged Collection, New Zealand No. 487/1966, Natural History Museum, Denmark.

Institution holding the type material

Natural History Museum of Denmark (C) Link

Publication

Not available online

Known distribution

New Zealand

Coromandel, North Island

Etymology

Dedicated to the New Zealand biologist L. H. Crosby.

Description

Valves broadly lanceolate with rostrate apices, 20-45 µm long and 8-14 µm broad. The raphe valve has a straight raphe, a narrow lanceolate axial area, and a fairly broad asymmetrical central area. 12-14 radiate transapical striae in 10 µm. The rapheless valve has a narrow lanceolate axial area, in the middle of the valve somewhat dilated in an asymmetrical central area. 10-14 radiate transapical striae in 10 µm.

Description reproduced with kind permission from Koeltz Scientific Books.

Notes

Images displayed online with kind permission of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

Funding from TFBIS (Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System), administered by the New Zealand Department of Conservation, is gratefully acknowledged.