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
11000147
Family
Rhabdonemataceae
Rhabdonema arcuatum
(Lyngbye) Kützing
(
Figure 36
)
Literature: (
Hendey 1964
, p. 172, pl. 35, figs. 10–12;
Poulin et al. 1984b
, p. 284, figs. 54, 56–59; Witkowski et al. 2000, p. 76, pl. 13, figs. 2–4).
Description: length 86–92, width 8–12 µm, striae
6–8 in
10 µm.
Remarks:
Three specimens
were observed in the whole material. This is an epiphytic species and seldom found in the plankton or attached to sediment grains.
Ecology and distribution: A marine species mostly found in warm and temperate waters but also reported from the sub-Arctic (
Poulin et al. 1984b
) and the Arctic (
von Quillfeldt 2000
) and from
Antarctica (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b)
. Rare in Potter Cove.