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Issue: Vol. 376 No. 1: 15 November 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-11-15
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.376.1.8
Page range: 77–80
Abstract views: 25
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Euastrum kossinskiae: a new species of desmid from the aapa mire of the Vologda Region (European Russia)

Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1, building 12, Moscow, 119991, Russia
Laboratory of Higher Aquatic Plants, Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences, 109, Borok, Yaroslavl Region, 152742, Russia
Desmidiaceae new taxa biodiversity Algae

Abstract

A new small-celled species of the genus Euastrum is described from Piyavochnoe Mire (Vologda Region, European Russia). The species was studied by light and scanning electron microscopy. This species refers to the group of Cosmarium-like species of Euastrum. This taxon is also compared to the other morphologically similar species.