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Type: Article
Published: 2019-09-23
Page range: 42–56
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Sabbea gen. nov., a new diatom genus (Bacillariophyta) from continental Antarctica

Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Section of Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Třeboň, Czech Republic
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303, USA Meise Botanic Garden, Research Department, Nieuwelaan 38, B–1860 Meise, Belgium
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, 4001 Discovery Drive, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
Meise Botanic Garden, Research Department, Nieuwelaan 38, B–1860 Meise, Belgium University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, ECOBE, Universiteitsplein 1, B–2610 Wilrijk, Antwerpen, Belgium
Bacillariophyta Cape Royds East Antarctica McMurdo Dry Valleys new genus Vestfold Hills Algae

Abstract

The non-marine diatom flora of the Antarctic Continent includes several endemic taxa recorded over the past 100 years. One of these taxa, Navicula adminensis D.Roberts & McMinn, was described from the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica. Detailed light and scanning electron microscopy observations have shown that based on its morphological features, the species does not belong to the genus Navicula sensu stricto. To determine the most closely related genera to N. adminensis, the morphological features of Adlafia, Kobayasiella, Envekadea, Stenoneis, Berkeleya, Climaconeis, and Parlibellus were compared with those of N. adminensis. Although each of these genera shows one or more similar features, none of them accommodates the salient morphological characteristics of N. adminensis. Therefore, a new genus, Sabbea gen. nov., is herein described, and Navicula adminensis is formally transferred to the new genus as Sabbea adminensis comb. nov. The genus Sabbea is characterized by uniseriate striae composed of small, rounded areolae occluded externally by individual hymenes, a rather simple raphe structure with straight, short proximal ends and short terminal raphe fissures, open girdle bands with double perforation and a very shallow mantle.