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Guide to Encyonema temperei

Krammer 1997

E Stoermeri Guide
Credit: Sarah Spaulding
  1. Ventral margin distinctly gibbous
  2. Valve terminations moderately rounded
  3. Central, dorsal striae 11-12 in 10 µm
  4. Rows of dorsal areolae closest to the central area oval, becoming lineolate

Valves are strongly dorsi-ventral. The dorsal margin is broadly arched, while the ventral margin is distinctly gibbous. The number of dorsal, central striae is important in distinguishing this species from similar species, as well as the density of areolae in a central, dorsal striae. Ventrally, central striae number 9 in 10 μm, and distal striae number 5 in 5 μm. The density of areolae within a central, dorsal stria is 9 in 5 μm.