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
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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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Licmophora luxuriosa
Heiden
(
Figure 34
)
Literature: (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b, p. 429, figs. 9–15;
Heiden and Kolbe 1928
, p. 572, pl. 6, figs. 140, 141; Simonsen 1992, p. 28, pl. 25, figs. 1–7, pl. 27, figs. 1–3).
Description: Length 80–88 µm, width 8–9 µm, striae
8–9 in
10 µm.
Remarks: Few specimens were observed on the sediment and appeared with slightly denser striae than normally found in this species (
5–6 in
10 µm).
Ecology and distribution: A marine epiphytic species, rarely found in the plankton or attached to sediment grains. Only known from the Southern seas and
Antarctica (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b)
. Rare in Potter Cove.