Four new Luticola taxa (Bacillariophyta) from Maritime Antarctica

RALITSA ZIDAROVA; ZLATKO LEVKOV; BART VAN DE VIJVER

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.170.3.2

Issue: Vol. 170 No. 3: 26 May 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-05-26

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.170.3.2

Page range: 155–168

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**Four new Luticola taxa (Bacillariophyta) from Maritime Antarctica**

RALITSA ZIDAROVA⁺⁻
ZLATKO LEVKOV⁺⁻
BART VAN DE VIJVER⁺⁻

St. "Kliment Ohridski" University of Sofia, Faculty of Biology, Department of Botany, 8 Dragan Tzankov Blvd., Sofia 1164, Bulgaria

Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Gazi Baba bb, Skopje, R. Macedonia

Botanic Garden Meise Department of Cryptogamy (Bryophyta & Thallophyta) Nieuwelaan 38 B-1860 Meise Belgium

Antarctic Region Bacillariophyta Luticola new species morphology taxonomy

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Abstract

The paper describes four new Luticola taxa from the South Shetland Archipelago, Antarctica: Luticola neglecta sp. nov., L. bogaertsiana sp. nov., L. contii sp. nov. and L. olegsakharovii sp. nov. All new taxa are studied using both light and scanning electron microscopy and compared to other morphologically similar species from (sub-)Antarctica and elsewhere in the world. Data on their ecology and biogeography are added.