Revisiting Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica, 12 years later: new observations of marine benthic diatoms
Author
Al-Handal, Adil Y.
Author
Torstensson, Anders
Author
Wulff, Angela
text
Botanica Marina
2022
Warsaw, Poland
2022-02-23
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bot-2021-0066
journal article
10.1515/bot-2021-0066
1437-4323
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Navicula
cf.
perminuta
Grunow
(
Figures 69, 70
)
Literature:(Busse and Snoeijs 2002, figs. 11–15;
Krammer and Lange-Bertalot 1986
, p. 112
, pl. 35, figs. 14–20).
Description: Length 11–24 µm, width 4–6 µm, striae
14–16 in
10 µm.
Remarks: The species illustrated here is considered as
N. perminuta
following the literature cited. A wide variation in valve outline and striae density has been observed (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008a) and may not correspond to the original description of the species.
Type
material has not been examined and therefore the identity of this species remains questionable.
Ecology and distribution: A widely distributed marine and brackish-water species. Common in Potter Cove.