Diatoms of North AmericaDiatoms of North America

Platessa strelnikovae

Enache, Potapova and E.Morales 2014

Platessa Strelnikovae Guide
  • Category
    Monoraphid
  • Length Range
    11-19 µm
  • Width Range
    6-7 µm
  • Striae in 10 µm
    14-17

Identification

Platessa strelnikovae LM6 Platessa strelnikovae LM1 Platessa strelnikovae LM5 Platessa strelnikovae LM4 Platessa strelnikovae LM2 Platessa strelnikovae LM3 Platessa strelnikovae LM7
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Platessa strelnikovae SEM3 Platessa strelnikovae SEM2 Platessa strelnikovae SEM1

Description

Valves are broadly elliptic with rounded, sometimes slightly protracted apices. The raphe valve is concave and the rapheless valve is convex. The raphe valve has a narrow, straight axial area, widening towards a rhomboid central area. The raphe is straight with simple ends. Terminal raphe fissures are absent. The axial area of the rapheless valve is broad, rhomboid, with a horseshoe depression on one side that extends to the valve margin. Striae are biseriate and radiate.

Autecology

Platessa strelnikovae has been so far found in sediments of three lakes in Vermont and Maine. These lakes are soft-water, circumneutral and mesotrophic.

Original Description

  • Author
    Enache, Potapova and E.Morales 2014
  • Length Range
    11-19 µm
  • Width
    6-7 µm
  • Striae in 10µm
    14-17

Original Images

Plstrelnik Orig Ill
Plstrelnik Orig Descr

Cite This Page

Potapova, M. (2014). Platessa strelnikovae. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://diatoms.org/species/platessa_strelnikovae

Responses

The 15 response plots show an environmental variable (x axis) against the relative abundance (y axis) of Platessa strelnikovae 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.