Nitzschia composita Giffen 1971
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66. Nitzschia composita Giffen (Figs 111, 128, 129)
Type locality: Dictyota dichotoma from tidal pool, South of Gordon’s Bay village, False Bay, Cape Province, South Africa.
References: Giffen 1971, p. 8, figs 42, 43; Witkowski et al. 2000. p. 376, pl. 211, fig. 12.
Morphometrics: Valves 51–61 (60–75) μm long, 5–6 (4–7) μm wide, fibulae 10–12 (9–11) in 10 μm, and transapical striae unresolved under light microscopy (ca. 20 in 10 μm).
Remarks: This taxon is characterized by transverse ribs from the keel to the opposite margin and the presence of either double rows of small puncta or two finely punctate transapical striae between the ribs (Giffen 1971). Nitzschia composita was found in the coasts of South Africa and Namibia (Giffen 1971, Witkowski et al. 2000), and is not reported elsewhere. It is probably a subtropical taxon occurring in warmer oceans. In South Korea, it was reported previously in the Yeongil Bay of Pohang (Joh 2017), and is currently rarely epiphytic on seaweeds in the lagoon of the Seogwipo coast in Jeju Island.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Giffen
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Psocodea
- Family
- Menoponidae
- Genus
- Nitzschia
- Species
- composita
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nitzschia composita Giffen, 1971 sec. Joh, 2021
References
- Giffen, M. H. (1971) Marine littoral diatoms from the Gordon's bay region of False Bay, Cape Province, South Africa. Botanica Marina 14: 1 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.1515 / botm. 1971.14. s 1.1
- Witkowski, A., Lange-Bertalot, H. & Metzeltin, D. (2000) Diatom flora of marine coasts I. Iconographia Diatomologica. Vol. 7. A. R. G. Ganter Verlag K. G., Ruggell, 925 pp.
- Joh, G. (2017) Newly recorded species of diatoms in Korea, from estuarine sandflats of the Nakdong River and seagrasses of Yeongil Bay. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology 35: 227 - 239. https: // doi. org / 10.11626 / KJEB. 2017.35.3.227