Registration Id: http://phycobank.org/104094

Event: new name, new nomenclatural type

Homoeocladia contraria Lobban, B.Sison & Ashworth in Plants 12(23): 13, fig. 7A-F. 4 Dec 20231,2
Holotype: Guam, Outhouse Beach, Apra Harbor, alt. 0 m, 13°27'50.4"N, 144°39'21.6"E, 3 May 2009, C.S. Lobban & M. Schefter GU52K-73 Lobban, C.S., Sison, B. & Ashworth, M.P. 2023: The search for species flocks in marine benthic Homoeocladia spp. (Diatomeae: Bacillariales). I. Variations on three themes, seventeen new species. – Plants 12(23): 4073 (1-45). https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12234073: fig. 7A-C
1. Etymology: Latin contrarius, against, opposite, with reference to our earlier misidentification., 2. Diagnosis: Areolae in peri-raphe zone almost infilled, transverse costae on valve–mantle face, the more distal areolae with more or less distinctly thickened vimines, girdle bands with bordered areolae, 3. Fig. 7AC from a specimen on stub 230
published in: Lobban, C.S., Sison, B. & Ashworth, M.P. 2023: The search for species flocks in marine benthic Homoeocladia spp. (Diatomeae: Bacillariales). I. Variations on three themes, seventeen new species. – Plants 12(23): 4073 (1-45): 13, fig. 7A-F

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