Tabellaria Explained

Tabellaria is a genus of freshwater diatoms.^[1] They are cuboid in shape, and the frustules (siliceous cell walls) are attached at the corners so that the colonies assume a zigzag shape.

Further reading

Mou. Daiqing. Stoermer. Eugene. SEPARATING TABELLARIA BACILLARIOPHYCEAE SHAPE GROUPS BASED ON FOURIER DESCRIPTORS. Journal of Phycology. 1992. 28. 386–395. 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1992.00386.x. 2027.42/66204. free.

Potapova. Marina. Tabellaria vetteri: a New Diatom. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . October 2011. 163. 1. 35–41. 10.1635/053.161.0102.

Knudson. Brenda M. The Diatom Genus Tabellaria: I. Taxonomy and Morphology. Annals of Botany. July 1952. 16. 63. 421–440. 0305-7364.

External links

• Protist Images Database:Tabellaria - Micrographs of Tabellaria species, but with only T. fenestrata identified to the species level
• - Tabellaria at algaebase.org

Notes and References

1. Book: Hoek . C. van den . Mann . D. G. . Jahns . Hans Martin . Algae: an Introduction to Phycology . 1995 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 0-521-31687-1 .