Florida Coastal Everglades LTER - Diatom Image Database

Welcome to the Diatom Image Database! The Periphyton Group at Florida International University created and maintains the Diatom Image Database, which includes over 980 diatom taxa found in the greater Everglades region of south Florida. Please send questions or comments about the Diatom Image Database to Franco Tobias .

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Mastogloia decussata

Authority:

Grunow

Year:

1892

References:

Jensen (1985), pg. 421, 422, fig. 917

Synonyms:

Mastogloia trivolta (Brun 1893)

Ecological Preference:

Marine

Description:

Valves lanceolate with blountly rounded ends. Raphe branches with slight lateral dilatation, axial area narrow, central area small. Cell wall very delicately punctate. Partecta terminated at some distance from the ends, uniform in shape, rectangular.

Length:

70-130 µm

Width:

22-27 µm

Strd:

ca.30

Partecta:

9-10

Projects:

Biscayne Bay Paleo Project

Sample localities:

Biscayne Bay (BISC)

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Mastogloia decussata