﻿Diatoma sinensis: a new diatom species (Bacillariophyta) found in the brackish Lake Qinghai, China

Yuan, Li; Liu, Bing; Rioual, Patrick; Long, Ji-Yan; Peng, Yumei

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.210.90438

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“…Williams, Hannaea inaequidentata , and Diatoma sinensis Bing Liu & Rioual. There is a 4:2 configuration of girdle bands in the normal vegetative cells of both C. sinensis ( Liu et al 2020 ) and D. sinensis ( Yuan et al 2022 ). There is a 4:2 configuration of girdle bands in the normal but not dividing vegetative cells of H. inaequidentata whereas a 4:4 configuration appears in the dividing vegetative cells ( Liu and Williams 2020 ).…”

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The diatom genus Ulnaria (Bacillariophyta) in China

Liu¹

2023

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This study deals with Ulnaria species found and described from two regions of China with large climate differences during the period of 2014–2022. The first region, located in the Wuling Mountains and Hunan province, has a subtropical climate and the second in Qinghai, a northwest province of China, has a highland continental climate which is characterized by a cold and long winter and warm, short summer. Previously there were nine new Ulnaria species published from the first region. This study describes 14 additional new Ulnaria taxa, nine of which were found in the first region and five of which were found in the second region. A key to the Ulnaria species that have been described from China is provided. The main morphological characteristics for 63 Ulnaria taxa are summarized in Appendices which allow the division of these Ulnaria taxa into three groups: the seven members of group one all possess both uniseriate striae and valve marginal spines, the 42 members of group two all possess uniseriate or mostly uniseriate striae but without the valve marginal spines, and the 14 members of group three all possess mostly biseriate striae and without valve marginal spines. To summarize the morphological characters of the published Ulnaria taxa and 14 taxa described in this study several conclusions for the characterization of Ulnaria are drawn: 1) each cell has two valve-appressed, long plate-like plastids; 2) living cells of many Ulnaria species often lie in girdle view on a slide because they have deep mantles and some copulae associated with either the epivalve or the hypovalve so that the cell depth is often larger than the valve width; 3) the basic structures forming a valve include sternum, virgae, and vimines/viminules; 4) the valvocopula is a closed hoop which has a similar ultrastructure in all Ulnaria taxa but differs from the other copulae in structure; 5) the configuration of girdle bands is a common condition; 6) the life history of Ulnaria can be divided into the four series of successive stages: auxospore, initial cell, pre-normal vegetative cell, and normal vegetative cell, which is very similar to the life history of Hannaea inaequidentata (Lagerstedt) Genkal and Kharitonov; 7) the closed valvocopula is proposed as a definition character for the genus Ulnaria because demonstrating all girdle bands closed is impracticable.

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