Cosmarium panamense var. therezienii Costa, Ramos & Moura, 2023, var. nov.
Creators: name: Costa, Fabiana De Matos
name: Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto
name: Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Charophyta
Conjugatophyceae
Zygnematales
Desmidiaceae
Cosmarium
Cosmarium panamense
Cosmarium panamense var. therezienii

description: Cosmarium panamense var. therezienii F.M. Costa, G.J.P.Ramos & C.W.N.Moura var. nov. (Figs. 4, 19–23)   
 Diagnosis: —Cells slightly longer than broad, median constriction deep, sinus closed, linear; semicells trapeziform, margins crenate; cell wall covered by rows of granules surrounded by scrobicules; cell in apical view broadly ellipsoid. Cell dimensions: length 64–78.3 μm, breadth 56.3–60 μm, breadth of isthmus 20.4–23.5 μm.   
 Holotype:— Material numbered (HUEFS 263034!) [pro parte], deposited at the Herbarium of State University of Feira de Santana, population partially illustrated here (Figs. 4, 19–23).   
 Paratypes:— Material numbered (HUEFS 263041) [pro parte], deposited at the Herbarium of State University of Feira de Santana.   
 Type locality:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Camaçari, Capivara Grande River, Lat. 12°45’05.8’’ S, Long. 38°10’22.4’’ W, 17 September 2019, F. M. Costa & M. S. Correia s/n (HUEFS 263034).   
 Habitat:— Periphytic on Eleocharis acutangula; water conductivity 0.08 mS.cm-1 (± 0.01); dissolved oxygen 8.0 mg.L-1 (± 1.3); pH 6.4 (± 0.5); total dissolved solids 0.04 ppt (± 0.01); water temperature 30 ºC (± 1.8).   
 Etymology:— The epithet is given in honor of the French desmidiologist Yves Thérézien for his contribution to knowledge of desmids, especially in South America.   
 Differential diagnosis:— Cosmarium panamense was proposed by Prescott (1936: 504), based on material collected in Panamá. In Brazil, this species is rarely reported in the literature. There is only a confirmed record of its occurrence in the Brazilian territory, which was based on the sample gathered in municipality of Andaraí, Bahia State (Ramos et al. 2021). Thus, the material from the Capivara River basin represents the second taxonomic record of that species in Brazil.   
 Morphologically, the main characteristic that differs in C. panamense var. therezienii from the nominate variety is the cell outline, with trapeziform semicells in frontal view, and broadly ellipsoid in apical view. This morphotype is quite similar to the taxon described by Thérézien (1985: 108, PI. XXVIII - Fig. 2) from French Guiana.   
 Cosmarium panamense var. therezienii shows some morphological characteristics similar to C. decoratum West & G.S. West (1895: 61), but the latter differs by having scrobicules with a triangular shape on the faces of the semicells, as illustrated by West & G.S. West (1895: pl.7, fig.21) and by Couté & Tell (1981: pl.10, fig.1-6).
description: Published as part of Costa, Fabiana De Matos, Ramos, Geraldo José Peixoto & Moura, Carlos Wallace Do Nascimento, 2023, New taxa of Cosmarium and Euastrum (Zygnematophyceae) from the North Coast of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 193-200 in Phytotaxa 632 (2) on page 197, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.632.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/10438588