Navicula cassieana
Foged

Navicula cassieana; image by Cathy Kilroy (NIWA)

Type slide

Lake Waikaremoana, North Island, New Zealand. Foged Collection, New Zealand No. 634/1966, Museum of Natural History, Denmark.

Institution holding the type material

http://snm.ku.dk/english/
(Web page)

Publication

Not available online
(Web page)

Known distribution

Lake Waikaremoana, New Zealand

Etymology

Dedicated to the New Zealand biologist Vivienne Cassie.

Description

Valves broadly elliptic-lanceolate with slightly protracted apices, 25-30 µm long and 10-13 µm broad. Raphe straight filiform with terminal fissures deflected in the same direction. Narrow linear axial area and small central area. 8-10 transapical striae in 10 µm, radiate and punctate.

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.