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Kurtkrammeria neoamphioxys

(Krammer) Bahls 2015

Encyonopsis Neoamphioxys Guide
  • Category
    Asymmetric Biraphid
  • Length Range
    41-59 µm
  • Width Range
    4.9-7.6 µm
  • Striae in 10 µm
    13-15 at the valve center, 15-18 at the ends on the dorsal side
  • Synonyms
    Navicula amphioxys Kütz. 1844, p. 91, fig. 28:37
    Cymbella amphioxys (Kütz.) Cleve 1894, p. 164
    Cymbella navicula var. amphioxys Grunow in Cleve and J.D.Möller 1879
  • Reported As
    Cymbella amphioxys (Krammer and Lange-Bertalot 1986, p. 328, fig. 135:11-13)

Identification

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Description

Valves are linear-lanceolate and distinctly dorsiventral. The dorsal margin is more strongly arched than the ventral margin, which is sometimes almost flat and sometimes slightly tumid in the middle. The apices are subrostrate, only weakly protracted, and tipped ventrally. The axial area is narrow. The central area is small and rounded. A single stigma lies at the end of a short median stria on the dorsal side of the central area. The raphe is lateral. Proximal raphe ends are weakly expanded and tipped towards the dorsal side. Distal raphe ends are hooked towards the ventral side. Striae are radiate near the valve center and then become parallel and finally convergent at the apices. Areolae in the striae are very fine and difficult to resolve in LM.

Autecology

This taxon is uncommon but widely distributed in small lakes, ponds and fens in the northern Rocky Mountains and North Cascades. In one of these lakes, Johns Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, pH measured 7.2 and specific conductance measured 30 µS/cm at the time of collection. In Drosera Fen on the Indian Meadows Research Natural Area in western Montana, pH measured 6.8 and specific conductance measured 19 µS/cm. Krammer (1997) reports that E. neoamphioxys has a nordic-alpine distribution and prefers oligotrophic waters.

Small Tarn Sw Of Bigelow Mountain
Credit: Craig Weiland, Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation.
Small tarn southwest of Bigelow Mountain, North Cascades, Chelan County, Washington: home of K. neoamphioxys.

Original Description

  • Basionym
    Encyonopsis neoamphioxys
  • Author
    Krammer 1997
  • Length Range
    45-72 µm
  • Width
    6-8 µm
  • Striae in 10µm
    14-18

Original Images

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Updates

Dec 01, 2016 - Transfer from Encyonopsis to Kurtkrammeria

From January 2014 until December 2016, this taxon page appeared within the genus Encyonopsis. The page was updated to follow the transfer to Kurtkrammeria made by Bahls (2015). - S. Spaulding

Cite This Page

Bahls, L. (2014). Kurtkrammeria neoamphioxys. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://diatoms.org/species/kurtkrammeria_neoamphioxys

Responses

The 15 response plots show an environmental variable (x axis) against the relative abundance (y axis) of Kurtkrammeria neoamphioxys from all the stream reaches where it was present. Note that the relative abundance scale is the same on each plot. Explanation of each environmental variable and units are as follows:

ELEVATION = stream reach elevation (meters)
STRAHLER = distribution plot of the Strahler Stream Order
SLOPE = stream reach gradient (degrees)
W1_HALL = an index that is a measure of streamside (riparian) human activity that ranges from 0 - 10, with a value of 0 indicating of minimal disturbance to a value of 10 indicating severe disturbance.
PHSTVL = pH measured in a sealed syringe sample (pH units)
log_COND = log concentration of specific conductivity (µS/cm)
log_PTL = log concentration of total phosphorus (µg/L)
log_NO3 = log concentration of nitrate (µeq/L)
log_DOC = log concentration of dissolved organic carbon (mg/L)
log_SIO2 = log concentration of silicon (mg/L)
log_NA = log concentration of sodium (µeq/L)
log_HCO3 = log concentration of the bicarbonate ion (µeq/L)
EMBED = percent of the stream substrate that is embedded by sand and fine sediment
log_TURBIDITY = log of turbidity, a measure of cloudiness of water, in nephelometric turbidity units (NTU).
DISTOT = an index of total human disturbance in the watershed that ranges from 1 - 100, with a value of 0 indicating of minimal disturbance to a value of 100 indicating severe disturbance.