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Thalassiosira gracilis Hustedt 1958
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Description
Thalassiosira gracilis (Karsten) Hustedt (Figure 6)
Literature: (Hasle and Syvertsen 1997, p. 82, pl. 12; Scott and Thomas 2005, p. 99, fig. 2.50a–f).
Description: Diameter 14–18 µm.
Remarks: A small species but can be easily recognized under LM by its large central areole.
Ecology and distribution: Widely distributed in Antarctica and the Southern seas. It has not previously been observed in Potter Cove but was frequent in the examined material.
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 84, DOI: 10.1515/bot-2021-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/11000147
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hustedt
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Phylum
- Ochrophyta
- Order
- Thalassiosirales
- Family
- Thalassiosiraceae
- Genus
- Thalassiosira
- Species
- gracilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Thalassiosira gracilis Hustedt, 1958 sec. Al-Handal, Torstensson & Wulff, 2022
References
- Hasle, G. R. and Syvertsen, E. E. (1997). Marine diatoms. In: Tomas, C. R. (Ed.), Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press, San Diego, USA, pp. 5 - 385.