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Issue: Vol. 373 No. 3: 29 October 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.373.3.1
Page range: 169–183
Abstract views: 19
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Tabularia (Kützing) Williams & Round from Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province, China, with a cladistic analysis of the genus and their relatives

College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, U.S.A.
Department of Life Sciences, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW75BD, UK
College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
Museum of Natural History and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A. School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
Tabularia morphology phylogenetic analysis Poyang Lake China new species Algae

Abstract

A new species of Tabularia, Tabularia sinensis, is described from the inland Poyang Lake (Jiangxi Province), the largest lake in China. The description is based on light and scanning electron microscope observations of valve and girdle elements. Given the diversity of forms in the genus, the relationships and status of the genus was investigated in the context of the other known species in the genus and to ascertain if Tabularia, as originally circumscribed, remains monophyletic.