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Issue: Vol. 640 No. 1: 7 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-07
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.640.1.5
Page range: 50-56
Abstract views: 76
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Gomphonema supersaprophilum sp. nov., a new diatom species (Gomphonemataceae, Bacillariophyceae) from Flemish rivers (Belgium)

Meise Botanic Garden, Research Department, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium. University of Antwerp, Department of Biology – ECOSPHERE, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
Bubenheim 136, 91757 Treuchtlingen, Germany.
Gomphonema Flanders new species morphology Algae

Abstract

During a biomonitoring survey of the Flemish rivers, an unknown Gomphonema taxon was observed. After detailed light and scanning electron microscopy research and careful analysis with similar species in literature, the taxon is described as Gomphonema supersaprophilum sp. nov. The new species can be separated from similar species from the G. parvulum-saprophilum complex by its larger width, the shape of the head pole and the shape of the areolae. The new species was typically found in highly eutrophic waters.

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