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Ellerbeckia.
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Centric
Ellerbeckia
Valve surface flat
Unique tube-like processes
Frustules joined in colonies
Ellerbeckia frustules are large cylinders with relatively narrow mantles. Cells are joined into filamentous colonies, linked by an interlocking series of ridges and grooves on opposing valve faces. The valve surface is flat and lacks the pores or processes of many centric diatom genera. Two different kinds of valves comprise a colony:...