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Fallacia vittata var. rotoehuensis (Foged) M.A.Harper

Type slide

Freshwater, Lake Rotoehu, North Island, New Zealand. Foged Collection, New Zealand No. 594/1966, Natural History Museum, Denmark.

Institution holding the type material

Publication

Not available online

Known distribution

New Zealand

North Island, New Zealand.

Etymology

From Lake Rotoehu.

Description

Differs from the type species by having broad-elliptical valves, 20-25 µm long, 12-13 µm wide, 18 striae in 10µm.

Description reproduced with kind permission of Koeltz Scientific Books

Notes

Material on the type slide was not able to be located; therefore no images are available.

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

Reference

Foged N 1979. Diatoms in New Zealand, the North Island. A. R. Gantner Verlag KG, Vaduz. 130 p.