<documentid="966AF1EE04F8B80B8A6D08FD37150B95"ID-DOI="10.11646/phytotaxa.372.2.1"ID-ISSN="1179-3163"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13728822"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="GgImagineBatch"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1725682255182"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Al-Handal, Adil Y., Thomas, Evan W. & Pennesi, Chiara"docDate="2018"docId="0392662BFF9F2F65FF61F0B3FABBFDCE"docLanguage="en"docName="phytotaxa.372.2.1.pdf"docOrigin="Phytotaxa 372 (2)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.372.2.1"docStyle="DocumentStyle:96748F8F1B6C902996E134952A3A36B9.13:Phytotaxa.2014-.journal_article"docStyleId="96748F8F1B6C902996E134952A3A36B9"docStyleName="Phytotaxa.2014-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="13"docTitle="Paralia sulcata Cleve 1873"docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="116"masterDocId="FFAB1E53FF9A2F60FFE9F02CFFEEFF8A"masterDocTitle="Marine benthic diatoms in the newly discovered coral reefs, off Basra coast, Southern Iraq"masterLastPageNumber="152"masterPageNumber="111"pageNumber="116"updateTime="1725694383496"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-figures="UNSPECIFIED"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:titleid="04D952EF41906BA15BB5991CE45BE5BC">Marine benthic diatoms in the newly discovered coral reefs, off Basra coast, Southern Iraq</mods:title>
<mods:namePartid="0C92696EA88BF580FAD8612BFCA0357D">Al-Handal, Adil Y.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="8EF1DB60A5F9D01E5816E82A62730DA0">Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="DE173FD0432400A2194E5F577A5D48DB">Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italia</mods:affiliation>
<bibRefCitationid="EFAAAACCFF9F2F65FE25F0B3FD92FF32"author="Cleve, P. T."box="[460,636,159,184]"pageId="5"pageNumber="116"pagination="1 - 28"refId="ref22648"refString="Cleve, P. T. (1873) On Diatoms from the Arctic Sea. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 1: 1 - 28"type="journal article"year="1873">Cleve (1873: 7)</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="EFAAAACCFF9F2F65FF14F0EAFE6EFF51"author="Hendey, N. I."box="[253,384,198,219]"pageId="5"pageNumber="116"refId="ref24568"refString="Hendey, N. I. (1964) An Introductory Account of the Smaller Algae of British Coastal Waters, Part V: Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms). Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 317 pp."type="book"year="1964">Hendey 1964</bibRefCitation>
, p. 73, pl. 23, fig. 5;
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includes several species which are difficult to separate without observations with electron microscopes (
<bibRefCitationid="EFAAAACCFF9F2F65FE96F1B7FDC3FE3E"author="Crawford, R. M."box="[383,557,411,436]"pageId="5"pageNumber="116"pagination="200 - 210"refId="ref22843"refString="Crawford, R. M. (1979) Taxonomy and frustular structure of the marine centric diatom Paralia sulcata. Journal of Phycology 15: 200 - 210. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 0022 - 3646.1979.00200. x"type="journal article"year="1979">Crawford 1979</bibRefCitation>
of the species. Observations with SEM revealed several taxa previously described as
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<bibRefCitationid="EFAAAACCFF9F2F65FCE7F193FB78FE52"author="MacGillivary, M. L. & Kaczmarska, I."box="[782,1174,447,472]"pageId="5"pageNumber="116"pagination="221 - 235"refId="ref25734"refString="MacGillivary, M. L. & Kaczmarska, I. (2013) Lectotypification of Paralia sulcata and description of P. obscura sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from the Ehrenberg Collection. Diatom Research 28: 221 - 235. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 0269249 X. 2013.791646"type="journal article"year="2013">Macgillivary & Kaczmarska 2013</bibRefCitation>
)
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. The present specimens were assigned to
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<emphasisid="B94F0B2FFF9F2F65FF54F22BFE30FDAA"box="[189,478,519,544]"italics="true"pageId="5"pageNumber="116">Ecology and Distribution</emphasis>
: A marine cosmopolitan species, normally found on sediment but occasionally in the plankton. Previously reported from the Gulf (
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,
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