Subject: diatom, freshwater, lowland ponds, Pelagonia, taxonomy
Year: 2021
Type: Article
Title: Sellaphora pelagonica (Bacillariophyceae), a new species from dystrophic ponds in the Republic of North Macedonia
Author: KOCHOSKA, HRISTINA
Author: ZAOVA, DUŠICA
Author: VIDESKA, ANASTASIJA
Author: MITIC-KOPANJA, DANIJELA
Author: NAUMOVSKA, HRISTINA
Author: WETZEL, CARLOS E.
Author: ECTOR, LUC
Author: LEVKOV, ZLATKO
Abstract: Lowland intermittent ponds, although biologically important, are poorly studied water habitats. During the analyses of the material taken from lowland pond in Pelagonia Valley, and Vitachevo, Republic of North Macedonia, the diatom Sellaphora pelagonica sp. nov. was recorded and described based on light and scanning electron microscopy. The species is characterized by a strictly linear valve outline with parallel to slightly concave margins and broadly rounded ends, 15.0–40.0 µm long and 5.0–7.0 µm wide. These features, together with raphe structure and areolar shape are compared with several similar taxa currently ascribed to Sellaphora.
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Relation: Phytotaxa
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/12355
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/12355Identifier: 10.11646/phytotaxa.496.2.2
Identifier: https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/viewFile/66701/66204Identifier: 496
Identifier: 2
