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Type: Article
Published: 2014-05-26
Page range: 155–168
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Four new Luticola taxa (Bacillariophyta) from Maritime Antarctica 

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

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.