Thalassiosira gracilis (Karsten) Hustedt, 1958

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, Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) 65 (2), pp. 81-103 : 84

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1515/bot-2021-0066

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11094397

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C487C5-4305-7371-FCEF-FA2576EB985B

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scientific name

Thalassiosira gracilis (Karsten) Hustedt
status

 

Thalassiosira gracilis (Karsten) Hustedt ( Figure 6 View Figures 2–11 )

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.

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Ochrophyta

Class

Coscinodiscophyceae

Order

Thalassiosirales

Family

Thalassiosiraceae

Genus

Thalassiosira

Loc

Thalassiosira gracilis (Karsten) Hustedt

Al-Handal, Adil Y., Torstensson, Anders & Wulff, Angela 2022
2022
Loc

Thalassiosira gracilis (Karsten)

Hasle, G. R. & Syvertsen, E. E. 1997: 82
1997
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