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Issue: Vol. 482 No. 1: 27 January 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-01-27
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.482.1.6
Page range: 55–64
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 1

Cymbella xiaojinensis sp. nov., a new cymbelloid diatom species (Bacillariophyceae) from high altitude lakes, China

Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, P. R. China.
College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, P. R. China.
Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, P. R. China.
Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, P. R. China.
Museum of Natural History and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado-80309, USA.
China Cymbella diatom new species taxonomy Algae

Abstract

This paper describes a new species of Cymbella from an alpine lake in the Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China. The detailed morphological description of the new species, named Cymbella xiaojinensis sp. nov. is presented, based on light and scanning electron microscopy. The main features of C. xiaojinensis are characterized by strongly dorsiventral, triangular valves with a strongly reverse-lateral raphe system positioned near the proximal ends and an asymmetrical, larger central area, occupying approximately 1/2 of the width with the valve. Most morphological characteristics of the new species are similar to C. shudunensis, C. terrafuegiana, C. pamirensis, and C. gravida, but differ in details of size, valve shape, striae density, central area, and number of stigmata.