Ephemera Paddock, 1988

Holotype species: Ephemera planamembranacea (Hendey) Paddock

Description: Cells solitary, membranaceous; plastids numerous and cocciform. Valves fusiform with acute apices, much flattened transapically. Valve face extremely vaulted with unequal faces, delicately striated; striae areolate, areolae with longitudinally oriented slit-like foramina. Raphe straight, finned and lacking fibulae; helictoglossa large and with rounded terminal pores. Girdle hyaline. Marine, planktonic from the North Atlantic.

Information contributed by: D. B. Czarnecki. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2005-06-28 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Hasle, G.R. & Syvertsen, E.E. (1996). Marine diatoms. In: Identifying Marine Phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 5-385. San Diego: Academic Press.

Comments: Scott & Thomas (2005: 148) record this genus as a member of the Family Naviculaceae.

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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. 28 June 2005. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 November 2024