Sullivan, M.,
Frankovich, T.,
Ashworth, M.
(2025).
Auricula.
In Diatoms of North America.
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Epithemioid
Auricula
Canal raphe fibulate
Raphe strongly eccentric
Raphe biarcuate
Striae biseriate
Plastid large, single, plate-like
Auricula includes a small, but uncertain, number of epipelic (living on sediment) taxa of marine habitats.Paddock and Sims (1980) studied A. amphitritis and emended the genus description. They considered that, at most, only 12 previously described species possessed characters in common with the generitype and, therefore, are valid...