Pinnularia segariana Foged

Type slide

Outflow from Ngongotaha Trout Hatchery, North Island, New Zealand. Foged Collection, New Zealand No. 506/1966, Natural History Museum, Denmark.

Institution holding the type material

Natural History Museum of Denmark (C) Link

Publication

Not available online

Known distribution

New Zealand

In addition to the type locality, reported in a Juncus swamp between Taihape and Waiouru, North Island, New Zealand.

Etymology

Dedicated to the New Zealand biologist E. C. M. Segar.

Description

The valves are linear-lanceolate with faintly protracted, broadly rounded apices, 15-20 µm long and 5-6 µm broad. The axial area is lanceolate, the central area forms a rather broad transverse fascia. The raphe is straight with central nodules faintly deflected in the same direction, and the terminal fissures also deflected in the same direction. Transapical striae, 14-15 in 10 µm, are radiate towards the middle of the valve, but convergent towards the apices.

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.