Iconella murielae ( Compere ) Cocquyt & R. Jahn, 2017

Jahn, Regine, Kusber, Wolf-Henning & Cocquyt, Christine, 2017, Differentiating Iconella from Surirella (Bacillariophyceae): typifying four Ehrenberg names and a preliminary checklist of the African taxa, PhytoKeys 82, pp. 73-112 : 85

Iconella murielae ( Compere) Cocquyt & R. Jahn comb. nov.

≡ Surirella murielae Compère in Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 45: 381, figs 12, 26. 1975.

Holotype.

BR 984, Compère 3875. "Lac Tchad, à 10 km au N du delta du Chari, plancton".

http://phycobank.org/100071

Comment.

This species is illustrated by LM and SEM in Bogaerts et al. (2014), additional illustrations are given here in Fig. 5 .

Figures

Figure 5. Iconella murielae. Valve from the holotype slide BR 984. A, C Overview of the entire valve at different foci B, D Detail of the middle part of the valve at different foci B is showing the fenestral openings below the raphe canal and D the striae and the transapical undulations. Scale bar for A, C = 20 µm; scale bar for B, D = 10 µm.