Artigo Revisado por pares

Diatomeas (Bacillariophyceae) de Ambientes Acuáticos de Altura de la Provincia de Catamarca, Argentina II

2006; Sociedad Argentina de Botánica; Volume: 41; Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1851-2372

Autores

Nora I. Maidana, Claudia Seeligmann,

Tópico(s)

Protist diversity and phylogeny

Resumo

Summary: Diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) from high altitude aquatic environments of Catamarca Province in Argentina. II. In this research focusing the diatoms of high topographic wetlands, 14 samples of different freshwater bodies (between 2,420 and 4,240 m a. s. l.) were studied. Two hundred and eight infrageneric taxa were identified, 90 of them are new records for the Catamarca province. The genera: Frankophila and Microcostatus and the species Achnanthes thermalis var. rumrichorum Lange-Bertalot; Amphora mira Krasske; Brachysira atacamae Hustedt; Frankophila similioides Lange-Bertalot & Rumrich; Gomphonema punae Lange-Bertalot & Rumrich; Haloroundia speciosa Diaz & Maidana; Luticola mollis Lange-Bertalot & Rumrich; Mastogloia atacamae Hustedt; Microcostatus andinus Lange-Bertalot & Rumrich; Navicula atacamana Patrick; Navicula parinacota Rumrich & Lange-Bertalot; Planothidium chilense (Hustedt) Lange-Bertalot; Staurosira pseudoconstruens (Marciniak) Lange-Bertalot; Surirella chilensis var constricta Hustedt y Surirella wetzellii Hustedt are new records for Argentina. A new combination is proposed: Ulnaria ulna var. constricta.

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