Diploneis decora Jovanovska & Wilson & Hamilton & Stone 2023, sp. nov.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Diploneis decora sp. nov. (LM Figs 462–471, SEM Figs 472–474) Valves are weakly asymmetric, elliptic to weakly rhombic-elliptic with convex margins and bluntly round apices (Figs 462–472). Valve length is 23.5–39 μm and width is 14–18 μm. The axial area is narrow, linear to lanceolate, expanding into the longitudinally elongate and weakly asymmetric (Figs 464, 472), 4.2–6.5 μm wide central area. Externally, the longitudinal canal is broad, lanceolate to linear, slightly expanded in the middle of the valve with six rows of areolae narrowing into two to one at the valve apices (Figs 472, 473). The areolae over the canal are covered by cribra (>20 poroids) and arranged in oblong circles (white arrow in Fig. 473). Externally, the raphe is filiform, curved with deflected proximal ends positioned within a linear expanding teardrop-shaped depression (Figs 472, 473). The distal raphe ends are unilaterally bent to the same side as the proximal ends and terminate on the valve face at the mantle (Figs 472, 474). The striae are parallel at mid-valve becoming radiate towards the valve apices, 10 in 10 μm. Striae are uniseriate throughout (Fig. 473), composed of large rectangular areolae covered with cribra (>25 poroids) with a varied complex structure, 18–20 in 10 μm. The inter-areolar thickenings bear longitudinal fin-like ornamentations; small fin-like ridges can be present within the cribra. The areolae increase in size towards the valve margins (Fig. 472). Type:— UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA, Lake Tanganyika, Mahale National Park, at 783 m elevation; sand, 25 m water depth, collected SCUBA diving, 6°10’25.1” S 29°44’25.2” E, W. Salzburger, 28 th June 2019 (holotype designated here, circled specimen BM-108990! = Fig. 466, isotypes ANSP-GC17219!, CANA-129339!). Type material CANA-129318. Registration: http://phycobank.org/103702 Pictures of the isolated specimen:— LM micrograph on 1000× magnification (Fig. S3u). Sequence data:— Plastid gene rbc L sequence (GenBank accession: OQ 660291). Etymology:— The specific epithet ‘ decora ’ refers to the beautiful and ornate pattern of the cribrate areolae. Ecology and distribution:— This species has been observed in Lake Tanganyika, where the water is predominantly alkaline, moderately mineral-rich and very transparent. Its distribution range is restricted to Mahale National Park in the central sub-basin of the lake, and only very few specimens have been found on the edge of the southern sub-basin at Cape Nangu in Kasaba Bay (Fig. 1c, e, f). This extremely rare species inhabits the deep sandy substrates of the lake, where it usually co-occurs with D. kilhamiana sp. nov., D. cocquytiana sp. nov., D. gigantea sp. nov., D. angusta sp. nov., D. serrulata sp. nov., D. major sp. nov., D. salzburgeri sp. nov., and D. latera sp. nov. Main differential characters:— Valve shape, broad canals, canal areolae arranged in oblong circles, large areolae on the valve, external fin-like ornamentations across the valve, and poroids>25 per areola. Similar species:— Diploneis serrulata sp. nov. and Diploneis abscondita Lange-Bertalot & Fuhrmann (2016:158).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.076 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".