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Issue: Vol. 245 No. 1: 22 January 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.245.1.5
Page range: 51–58
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 1

Microcostatus salinus sp. nov., a new benthic diatom (Bacillariophyceae) from esturarine intertidal sediments, Japan

Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao 266071, China Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Konan 4-5-7, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Konan 4-5-7, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
Department of Biology, The Nippon Dental University School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, 1-9-20 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8159, Japan
Graduate School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Konan 4-5-7, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao 266071, China
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao 266071, China Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, China
Bacillariophyceae epipsammic Microcostatus salinus estuarine diatoms new species Algae Japan

Abstract

Microcostatus salinus, an epipsammic species, is described from estuarine intertidal sediments in Japan. Its morphology was examined with light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Microcostatus salinus possesses two unique morphological features differing from all other species in this genus, viz., i) the striae are composed of two elongate areolae and restricted to the area near valve apexes, and ii) the distance between the two central raphe endings on the external valve surface is about two times longer than that on the internal one. In addition, M. salinus is the only species of the genus Microcostatus found from brackish to saline environments.