Department of Ecology and Systematics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e32198. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032198. Epub 2012 Mar 19.
The diatom family Rhaphoneidaceae is characterized by high generic diversity and low species diversity with most genera known to have long stratigraphic ranges. The genera within this family are neritic marine, and mostly epipsammic. A new modern and epipsammic genus, Meloneis gen. nov., is described herein and is compared to all genera within Rhaphoneidaceae and especially to Rhaphoneis Ehrenberg s.l. Within Meloneis three new species and one variety are distinguished and described herein: M. mimallis sp. nov., M. mimallis var. zephyria var. nov., M. akytos sp. nov., and M. gorgis sp. nov.
双眉藻科的特征是属的多样性高，种的多样性低，大多数属的分布时间跨度都很长。该科的属种为浅海型，主要为附着生物。本文描述了一个新的现代附着生物属，即 Meloneis 属，并将其与双眉藻科的所有属进行了比较，尤其是与 Ehrenberg s.l. 的 Rhaphoneis 进行了比较。在 Meloneis 属内，区分并描述了三个新种和一个变种，即 M. mimallis sp. nov.、M. mimallis var. zephyria var. nov.、M. akytos sp. nov. 和 M. gorgis sp. nov.。
