Licmophora luxuriosa Heiden

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

Licmophora luxuriosa Heiden ( Figure 34 )

Literature: (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b, p. 429, figs. 9–15; Heiden and Kolbe 1928, p. 572, pl. 6, figs. 140, 141; Simonsen 1992, p. 28, pl. 25, figs. 1–7, pl. 27, figs. 1–3).

Description: Length 80–88 µm, width 8–9 µm, striae 8–9 in 10 µm.

Remarks: Few specimens were observed on the sediment and appeared with slightly denser striae than normally found in this species (5–6 in 10 µm).

Ecology and distribution: A marine epiphytic species, rarely found in the plankton or attached to sediment grains. Only known from the Southern seas and Antarctica (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b) . Rare in Potter Cove.

Figures

Figures 27–38: Marine benthic diatoms in Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica, summer 2015. (27) Corethron pennatum. (28) Fragilaria striatula. (29) Synedropsis sp. (30) Licmophora antarctica. (31–32) Licmophora belgicae. (33) Licmophora gracilis. (34) Licmophora luxuriosa. (35) Thalassionema nitzschioides. (36) Rhabdonema arcuatum. (37, 38) Entopyla ocellata.