Acta Botanica Croatica, Vol. 74 No. 2, 2015.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1515/botcro-2015-0020
A new European record of Diadesmis fukushimae and its transference to Humidophila genus (Bacillariophyta)
Csilla Kövér
; University of West Hungary, Faculty of Natural Science, Károlyi Gáspár tér 4. H-9700 Szombathely, Hungary
János Korponai
; University of West Hungary, Faculty of Natural Science, Károlyi Gáspár tér 4. H-9700 Szombathely, Hungary
Sándor Harangi
; University of Debrecen, Faculty of Natural Science, Egyetem tér 1. H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Krisztina Buczkó
orcid.org/0000-0001-9377-8847
; Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Könyves Kálmán krt. 40. H-1476 Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
Diadesmis fukushimae, a rare oligotraphenic diatom, was found in some high mountain lakes of Romania. Its occurrence in the Parâng and Retezat Mountains is the second European record of the species. To date D. fukushimae has been known only from the type locality (Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA) and from a spring (Grotta Guernica, Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park (south-eastern Alps, Italy). Investigation by scanning electron microscopy showed that this species should be transferred to the recently established genus Humidophila. A new combination is proposed, Humidophila fukushimae. The morphological details of the European population are also presented.
Keywords
Diadesmis; diatoms; Humidophila; mountain lakes; oligotrophy; taxonomy
Hrčak ID:
146024
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Publication date:
1.10.2015.
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