Entomoneis gigantea (Grunow) Nizamuddin, 1983

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 : 97

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11094511

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scientific name

Entomoneis gigantea (Grunow) Nizamuddin
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Entomoneis gigantea (Grunow) Nizamuddin ( Figure 102 View Figures 93–106 )

Literature: ( Grunow 1860, p. 568, pl. 4, fig. 12 as Amphiprora gigantea ; Nizamuddin 1983, p. 704).

Description: Length 92–110 µm, 15–18 µm, striae 14–18 in 10 µm.

Remarks: Specimens observed in the present study appeared to have slightly denser striae than previously reported from Potter Cove (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008a).

Ecology and distribution: A widely distributed marine benthic species, also reported from sub-Arctic regions (Scholz and Einarsson 2015). Rare in Potter Cove.

Kingdom

Chromista

Phylum

Ochrophyta

Class

Bacillariophyceae

Order

Surirellales

Family

Entomoneidaceae

Genus

Entomoneis

Loc

Entomoneis gigantea (Grunow) Nizamuddin

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

Amphiprora gigantea

Grunow 1860
1860
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