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Licmophora gracilis Grunow 1867
Description
Licmophora gracilis (Ehrenberg) Grunow (Figure 33)
Literature: (Cremer et al. 2003, p. 95, figs. 98, 99; Poulin et al. 1984b, p. 280, figs. 31–34; Witkowski et al. 2000, p. 65, pl. 18, figs. 12–18, pl. 19, figs. 7–15).
Description: Length 22–28 µm, width 4–6 µm, striae 20–24 in 10 µm.
Remarks: Although this species may reach 120 µm length (Witkowski et al. 2000), only smaller specimens were observed in the present study.
Ecology and distribution: A widely distributed marine epiphytic species, found in the Arctic and in several locations in Antarctica (Fernandez et al. 2014). Frequent in 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 88, DOI: 10.1515/bot-2021-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/11000147
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Licmophoraceae
- Genus
- Licmophora
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Order
- Licmophorales
- Phylum
- Ochrophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Grunow
- Species
- gracilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Licmophora gracilis Grunow, 1867 sec. Al-Handal, Torstensson & Wulff, 2022
References
- Poulin, M., Berard-Therriault, L., and Cardinal, A. (1984 b). Les diatomees benthiques de substrats durs des eaux marines et saumatres du Quebec. 2. Tabellarioideae et Diatomoideae (Fragilariales, Fragilariaceae). Nat. Can. 111: 275 - 295.
- Fernandez, L. F., Calixto-Feres, M., Tenenbaum, D. R., Procopiak, L. K., Portinho, D., and Hinz, F. (2014). Fine morphology of four Licmophora (Bacillariophyta, Licmophorales) species from Admiralty Bay and Elephant Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Iheringia Ser. Bot., Porto Alegre 69: 465 - 477.