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Navicula barberiana Foged

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Type slide

Lake in dunes 14 miles north of the Woodhill Forest Station, North Island, New Zealand. Foged collection, New Zealand No. 553/1966, Natural History Museum, Denmark.

Publication

Not available online

Known distribution

New Zealand

North Island, New Zealand.

Etymology

Dedicated to the English biologist H. G. Barber.

Description

Valves elliptic-lanceolate with slightly protracted apices, 50-55 µm long and 14-15 µm broad. Straight filiform raphe with terminal fissures deflected in the same direction. Narrow axial area, in the middle of the valve slightly dilated. 8-10 extremely radiate transapical striae in 10 µm, in the middle alternately longer and shorter, distinctly punctate with ~18 areoles in 10 µm.

Description reproduced with kind permission of Koeltz Scientific Books .

Notes

Images published 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.

Reference

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

[Navicula barberiana]. Image: Cathy Kilroy (NIWA) Image
Navicula barberiana. Image: Cathy Kilroy (NIWA)
[Navicula barberiana]. Image: Cathy Kilroy (NIWA) Image
Navicula barberiana. Image: Cathy Kilroy (NIWA)
[Navicula barberiana]. Image: Cathy Kilroy (NIWA) Image
Navicula barberiana. Image: Cathy Kilroy (NIWA)
[Navicula barberiana], SEM. Image
Navicula barberiana, SEM.
[Navicula barberiana], SEM. Image
Navicula barberiana, SEM.
[Navicula barberiana], SEM. Image
Navicula barberiana, SEM.
[Navicula barberiana], SEM. Image
Navicula barberiana, SEM.
[Navicula barberiana], SEM. Image
Navicula barberiana, SEM.