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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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Pinnularia stomatophora

Pinnularia stomatophora


Authority:
(Grunow) Cleve
Year:
1891
References:
Krammer, K. (1992). Pinnularia eine Monographie der europäischen Taxa. in: Bibliotheca Diatomologica 26, pp. 86-87; 236-237 [t.23:1-6]
Synonyms:
Navicula stomatophora Grun. in A. Schmidt et al. 1876; (?)Pinnularia substomatophora Hust. 1934
Description:
Valve is linear in shape, becoming weakly convex in the middle; ends are broad, tapering to an almost wedge-like shape; axial area is about 1/4 or 1/3 the valve breadth, becoming broader in the middle of the valve, where it meets an elliptical to rhombic-shaped central area; raphe is lateral, but becomes reverse-lateral close to the poles and the centre, meeting up with a round central pore in the valve centre, and having long, bayonet-shaped terminal ends in elliptical terminal areas; striae are radial at the centre, becoming convergent at the poles; length is 55-115µm, breadth is 8-16µm (length-to-breadth ration is 5.5:1-9:1); striae count is 9-14 in 10µm
Projects:
  • Transect Project


    • Sample localities:
  • Loxahatchee (LOX)