Trinacria Heiberg, 1863
Lectotype species: Trinacria regina Heiberg
Original publication: Heiberg, P.A.C. (1863). Conspectus criticus diatomacearum danicarum. Kritisk oversigt over de danske Diatomeer. pp. 1-135, 6 pls. Kjøbenhavn: Wilhelm Priors Forlag.
Request PDFType designated in: Boyer, C.S. (1927). Synopsis of North American Diatomaceae, Supplement, Part 2. Naviculatae, Surirellatae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 79: 229-583.
Fossil: This is a genus of fossil species, or a genus with a fossil type species, or a genus the type species of which was originally described as a fossil.
Description: Cells tri- (quadr-)angular, attached in chains by the extended apices. A marine, fossil genus occurring in the Early Eocene. Valves tri- (qadr-)angular, elevated at the corners, where short and a longer spine(s) occur and interlock neatly with adjacent cells. Valve face raised in the centre and variously ornamented (e.g. with small spines); ridged along the valve face/mantle junction, the ridges running up the elevations; valve mantle shallow (the internal surface has folds in some species: see Ross, Sims & Hasle, 1977). Areolae radiating from the centre, cribrate; continuing down the valve mantle and becoming smaller up the elevations. At the apices of the elevations and surrounded by the spines, there are a few pores (indistinct in our specimen). Isolated simple pores penetrate the framework of valve face and mantle. Three rimoportulae occur as a central ring and three others occur near the corners; the internal development is slight but the external tubes can be quite long. Ross et al. (1973) figure a pseudocellus on the outer face of the elevation of T. exsculpta. Copulae not known.
The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-10-17 by M.D. Guiry.Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.
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: The overall morphology of this genus places it in the Hemiaulaceae (see Ross, Sims & Hasle, 1977), for a detailed discussion and their view that this group should be a subfamily of the Biddulphiaceae). Some of the fossil species have been investigated in great detail by Sims & Ross (1988). We thank P.A. Sims for material for this and the subsequent five genera.
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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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