Platessa tropica (Hustedt) C.E.Wetzel, Tudesque & Le Cohu, 2016

Tudesque, Loïc, Cohu, René Le & Wetzel, Carlos E., 2016, Two new Platessa (Bacillariophyceae) from Amazonia: Platessa guianensis spec. nov., and P. itoupensis spec. nov., Phytotaxa 267 (4), pp. 237-255 : 252

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.267.4.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A9278170-FFDC-8101-FF5B-57306C12F997

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scientific name

Platessa tropica (Hustedt) C.E.Wetzel, Tudesque & Le Cohu
status

comb. et stat. nov.

Platessa tropica (Hustedt) C.E.Wetzel, Tudesque & Le Cohu , comb. et stat. nov.

Basionym: Achnanthes montana var. tropica Hustedt (1939: 380) Platessa montana var. tropica (Hustedt) Lange-Bertalot in Ettl et al. (Eds.) Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa 2 (4): 445. 2004. Illustrated by Hustedt in Schmidt (1937), pl. 409, figs 58−63 and by Simonsen in Simonsen (1987), pl. 334, figs 35−52.

Platessa tropica comb . et stat., nov. is clearly a distinct species from tropical region ( Indonesia so far) while Platessa montana ( Krasske 1929: 350) Lange-Bertalot in Krammer & Lange-Bertalot (2004: 445) is a species originally found in aerial habitats from Europe ( Krasske 1929, Lange-Bertalot et al. 1996).

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Bacillariophyta

Class

Bacillariophyceae

Order

Achnanthales

Family

Achnanthaceae

Genus

Platessa

Loc

Platessa tropica (Hustedt) C.E.Wetzel, Tudesque & Le Cohu

Tudesque, Loïc, Cohu, René Le & Wetzel, Carlos E. 2016
2016
Loc

Achnanthes montana var. tropica

Hustedt 1939: 380
1939
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