Ardissoneopsis Lobban & Ashworth, 2022

Lobban, Christopher S., Ashworth, Matt P., Camacho, Terance, Lam, Daryl W. & Theriot, Edward C., 2022, Revision of Ardissoneaceae (Bacillariophyta, Mediophyceae) from Micronesian populations, with descriptions of two new genera, Ardissoneopsis and Grunowago, and new species in Ardissonea, Synedrosphenia and Climacosphenia, PhytoKeys 208, pp. 103-184 : 103

Ardissoneopsis Lobban & Ashworth gen. nov.

Description.

Valves single walled, isopolar or weakly heteropolar, simple polar architecture on valve and valvocopula.

Type species.

Ardissoneopsis undosa (Grunow) Lobban & Ashworth comb. nov.

Etymology.

Ardissonea [named for Italian phycologist Francesco Ardissone (1837-1910)] + - opsis, L. similar to.

Included species.

Ardissoneopsis fulgicans Lobban & Ashworth, sp. nov.

Ardissoneopsis appresssata Lobban & Ashworth, sp. nov.

Ardissoneopsis gracilis Lobban sp. nov.

Ardissoneopsis undosa (Grunow) Lobban & Ashworth comb. nov.

Registration.

Phycobank http://phycobank.org/103240.