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
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10.1515/bot-2021-0066
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Triceratium favus
Ehrenberg
(
Figure 23
)
Literature: (
Hendey 1964
, p. 108, pl. 25, fig. 4;
Hustedt 1930
, p. 708, fig. 463).
Description: Length of valve side 118–127 µm, areole 2.5–
3 in
10 µm.
Figures 27
–
38: Marine benthic diatoms in Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica, summer 2015. (27)
Corethron pennatum
. (28)
Fragilaria striatula
. (29)
Synedropsis
sp.
(30)
Licmophora
Remarks: Specimens observed had slightly convex valve margins and coarser areole. Valve outline appears similar to
Triceratium broeckii
but in this species areole clearly decrease in size at the center.
antarctica
. (31–32)
Licmophora belgicae
. (33)
Licmophora gracilis
. (34)
Licmophora luxuriosa
. (35)
Thalassionema nitzschioides
. (36)
Rhabdonema arcuatum
. (37, 38)
Entopyla ocellata
.
Ecology and distribution: A widely distributed marine species (
Hendey 1964
). It does not seem to be encountered in
Antarctica
but has been reported from
New Zealand
(Stidolph 1980). Rare in Potter Cove.