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
Neidiaceae
Biremis ambigua
(Cleve) D.G. Mann
(
Figures 75, 76
)
Literature: (
Hendey 1964
: p. 233, pl. 34, figs. 5–8 [as
Pinnularia ambigua
]; Witkowski et al. 2000, p. 158, pl. 155, figs. 2–6).
Description: Length 32–45 µm, width 5–7 µm (middle of the valve), striae
8–9 in
10 µm.
Ecology and distribution: A widely distributed marine and brackish-water species, recorded from the Arctic and from the tropics (
von Quillfeldt 2000
). It has not been previously observed in Potter Cove. Frequent in the material examined.