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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Pseudogomphonema kamtchaticum
(Grunow) Medlin
(
Figures 72, 73
)
Literature: (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b, p. 430, figs. 95– 100;
Medlin and Round 1986
, p. 216, figs. 64–70; Witkowski et al. 2000, p. 343, pl. 60, figs. 13–16).
Description: Length 40–65 µm, width 5.5–10 µm, striae
12– 14 in
10 µm.
Remarks: Specimens observed in Potter Cove possess less dense striae than reported for this species which normally range between 16 and
23 in
10 µm (
Medlin and Round 1986
; Scott and Thomas 2005). Specimens smaller than 40 µm were not observed although it might be as small as 18 µm. Ecology and distribution: This is a marine species mostly found as epiphytic and rarely on the sediment, also reported from the Arctic (
Klochkova et al. 2014
). Frequent in Potter Cove.