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Paralia sulcata Cleve 1873

Description

Paralia sulcata (Ehrenberg) Cleve (Figure 18)

Literature: (Hendey 1964, p. 73, pl. 23, fig. 5; Witkowski et al. 2000, p. 37, pl. 8, figs. 10, 11).

Description: Diameter 33–34 µm.

Ecology and distribution: A marine benthic species, often found in the plankton. Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic to the equator (Witkowski et al. 2000), also reported in sediment cores from the Ross Sea, Antarctica (Nishimura et al. 1998). Only two specimens were observed in the samples from Potter Cove.

Notes

Published as part of Al-Handal, Adil Y., Torstensson, Anders & Wulff, Angela, 2022, Revisiting Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica, 12 years later: new observations of marine benthic diatoms, pp. 81-103 in Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 65 (2) on page 86, DOI: 10.1515/bot-2021-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/11000147

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Paraliaceae
Genus
Paralia
Kingdom
Chromista
Order
Paraliales
Phylum
Ochrophyta
Scientific name authorship
Cleve
Species
sulcata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Paralia sulcata Cleve, 1873 sec. Al-Handal, Torstensson & Wulff, 2022

References

  • Hendey, N. I. (1964). An introductory account of the smaller algae of British coastal waters. V. Bacillariophyceae (diatoms). Fishery Investigations Series IV. Her Majesty' s Stationary Of fi ce, London.
  • Nishimura, A., Nakason, T., Hiramats, C., and Tanahashi, M. (1998). Late Quaternary paleoenvironment of the Ross Sea continental shelf, Antarctica. Ann. Glaciol. 27: 275 - 280.