Registration Id: http://phycobank.org/103181

Event: new name, new nomenclatural type

Chaetoceros macroelegans X.M.Chen & Yang Li in Diversity 14: 7, fig. 2, 3. 18 Aug 20221

Holotype: China, Ningbo coast, East China Sea, 29°51'48.96"N, 121°33'39.96"E (C: C-A99707)2

Isotype: China, Ningbo coast, East China Sea, 29°51'48.96"N, 121°33'39.96"E (SN: F-MC785)2

1. Etymology: macro refers the size of the tear-shaped poroids being larger on the intercalary setae than those in the two other species, and elegans refers the overall look of the chains, resembling the characteristics of C. elegans., 2. The holotype is a slide of acid-washed material of strain MC785.

published in: Chen, X.M., Chen, Z., Lundholm, N., Teng, S.T., Xu, X. & Li, Y. 2022: Semicryptic diversity around Chaetoceros elegans (Bacillariophyceae), and the description of two new species. – Diversity 14: 676

Registration on 2022-08-18 18:27:41 +0200