(2025).
Epipellis.
In Diatoms of North America.
Retrieved June 20, 2025, from https://diatoms.org/genera/epipellis
Monoraphid
Epipellis
Valves elliptic
Striae alveolate
Raphe sigmoid
Raphe valve with lateral extensions of sternum
Raphe fissures short
Species in the genus Epipellis occur as cells epizoic on marine cetaceans in temperate to polar waters.
The cells are adnately attached to the skin of the animal by the raphe valve. Cells are solitary, strongly heterovalvar, heavily silicified, and with a single parietal, C-shaped chloroplast. In girdle view, one margin of the cell is...