Trigonium arcticum (Brightwell) Cleve, 1868

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 : 87

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11094413

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scientific name

Trigonium arcticum (Brightwell) Cleve
status

 

Trigonium arcticum (Brightwell) Cleve ( Figure 22 View Figures 20–26 ) Literature: ( Hendey 1937, p. 282, pl. 10, fig. 1; Scott and Thomas 2005, p. 18, fig. 2.6a–f).

Description: Length of valve side 148–156 µm, areole 3–3.5 in 10 µm.

Remarks: All specimens observed possessed slightly concave valve sides.

Ecology and distribution: A marine species widely distributed in Antarctica and the Southern seas (Scott and Thomas 2005), also recorded from the sub-Arctic (Scholz and Einarsson 2015). Previously reported as an epiphyte in Potter Cove (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b). Rare in the material examined.

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Ochrophyta

Class

Bacillariophyceae

Order

Biddulphiales

Family

Biddulphiaceae

Genus

Trigonium

Loc

Trigonium arcticum (Brightwell) Cleve

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

Trigonium arcticum (Brightwell)

Hendey, N. I. 1937: 282
1937
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