Trigonium Cleve, 1867
Holotype species: Trigonium arcticum (Brightwell) Cleve
Original publication and holotype designation: Cleve, P.T. (1867). Diatomaceer från Spetsbergen. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 24(10): 661-670.
Description: Cells tri- to multiangular, rectangular in girdle view. Plastids discoid. A marine genus growing in zig-zag chains attached to seaweeds; cosmopolitan but most widely distributed in warm waters. Also fossil, from the Late Eocene to the present. Valves triangular to multiangular, elevated at the corners; with deep, vertical mantles. Surface apparently smooth but at high magnification small granules can often be seen. areolae more-or-less simple, arranged in rows radiating from the centre, becoming smaller at the angles to form pseudocelli; closed externally by a layer of silica in which there is a ring of usually six pores, each closed by rotae. A septum occurs at each corner. Our figure suggests that there is a septum on the valvocopula. Rimoportulae low lying, clustered in the centre of the valve; their external openings are inconspicuous. Cingulum deep, containing porous, complete copulae.
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2015-12-07 by M.D. Guiry.Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Nikolaev, V.A., Kociolek, J.P., Fourtanier, E., Barron, J.A. & Harwood, D.M. (2001). Late Cretaceous diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) from the Marca Shale member of the Moreno Formation, California. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 152: 1-119, 39 plates.
Comments: Hendey (1964) clarified Cleve's description and rejected later modifications. His concept of the genus seems now to be accepted (e.g. by Glezer, 1975 and Hoban, 1983) although Simonsen (1974) has a different concept, using the name for Triceratium alternans. Keeping to the Cleve-Hendey concept helps to bring some order to the confusion of tri- and multiangular taxa. Hoban (1983) discusses and figures the type species of Trigonium; our material of another species (T. formosum?) is clearly in the same genus.
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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 07 December 2015. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024
