SILICA-SCALED CHRYSOPHYTES FROM ECUADOR

Abstract

Thirty silica-scaled chrysophytes, from 60 Ecuadorian water bodies, were observed using transmission and scanning
electron microscopy. The taxa comprised 27 Synurophyceae (19 Mallomonas spp., 7 Synura spp., and one Chrysodidymus
species) and three Chrysophyceae (two species of Paraphysomonas and one species of Spiniferomonas). All are new
reports for Ecuador, and one taxon (Mallomonas lychenensis f. ecuadorensis) is described as new. The number of taxa
per sample varied from none to ten.