Tabellaria

Tabellaria
Tabellaria fenestrata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Supergroup:	Stramenopiles
Division:	Ochrophyta
Clade:	Bacillariophyta
Class:	Fragilariophyceae
Order:	Tabellariales
Family:	Tabellariaceae
Genus:	Tabellaria Ehrenberg ex F.T.Kützing

Tabellaria is a genus of freshwater diatoms. They are cuboid in shape, and the frustules (siliceous cell walls) are attached at the corners so that the colonies assume a zigzag shape.

Further reading

• Mou, Daiqing; Stoermer, Eugene (1992). "SEPARATING TABELLARIA BACILLARIOPHYCEAE SHAPE GROUPS BASED ON FOURIER DESCRIPTORS" (PDF). Journal of Phycology. 28: 386–395. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3646.1992.00386.x. hdl:2027.42/66204.
• Potapova, Marina (October 2011). "Tabellaria vetteri: a New Diatom". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 163 (1): 35–41. doi:10.1635/053.161.0102.
• Knudson, Brenda M (July 1952). "The Diatom Genus Tabellaria: I. Taxonomy and Morphology". Annals of Botany. 16 (63): 421–440. ISSN 0305-7364.

References

External links

• Protist Images Database:Tabellaria - Micrographs of Tabellaria species, but with only T. fenestrata identified to the species level
• - Tabellaria at algaebase.org

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