Diadesmis sp.

Samant, Bandana, Kumar, Arun, Mohabey, D. M., Humane, Sumedh, Kumar, Deepesh, Dhoble, Anup & Pizal, Priya, 2020, Centropyxis aculeata (testate lobose amoebae) and associated diatoms from the intertrappean lacustrine sediments (Maastrichtian) of central India: Implications in understanding paleolake ecology, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 60) 23 (3), pp. 1-18 : 10

Diadesmis sp. (? confervacea)

Figure 6.6 valve view

Description. Valves elliptical, central area broad and rounded, and tapered areal ends. Raphae is straight; the striae are radiate and punctate with variable length.

Dimensions. Length 11.4 µm; width 0.5 -2.8 µm; striae 34 in 10 µm.

Figures

FIGURE 6. 1. SEM photograph of Centropyxis aculeata (Ehrenberg, 1832). 2. SEM photographs of the centric diatom Pantocsekiella sp. (internal valve view) on the test of Centropyxis aculeata (Ehrenberg, 1832). 3 and 5. SEM photographs of the pennate diatom Achnanthes sp. on the test of Centropyxis aculeata (Ehrenberg, 1832). 4. SEM photograph of the pennate diatom Oricymba sp. on the wall of Centropyxis aculeata (Ehrenberg, 1832). 6. SEM photograph of the pennate diatom Diadesmis sp. on the wall of Centropyxis aculeata (Ehrenberg, 1832).