Licmophora gracilis (Ehrenberg) Grunow, 1867

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 : 88

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11094425

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scientific name

Licmophora gracilis (Ehrenberg) Grunow
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Licmophora gracilis (Ehrenberg) Grunow ( Figure 33 View Figures 27–38 )

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.

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