Willdenowia 36
Willdenowia – Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
ISSN 0511-9618
© 2006 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem.
Jahn, R. & Kusber, W.-H.: Algae of the Ehrenberg collection –
3. Typification of seven diatom taxa described by C. G. Ehrenberg predominantly from Greece.
Willdenowia 36 (Special Issue): 527-535.
doi:10.3372/wi.36.36150
Abstract
Lectotypes are selected and illustrated for seven names of diatom
species described by Ehrenberg in 1840 from Greece: Amphitetras
antediluviana, Epithemia hellenica (Eunotia hellenica), Lyrella
praetexta (Navicula praetexta), Rhopalodia graeca (Cocconema
graecum), Stictodiscus parallelus (Amphitetras? parallela),
Triceratium favus and T. pileus. This includes the type
of the genera Amphitetras and Triceratium. New
combinations are validated for Epithemia hellenica and Rhopalodia
graeca.
Key words:
Amphitetras, Triceratium, marine micro-algae, subfossil Bacillariophyta, lectotypes.
