Luticola subcrozetensis Van de Vijver, Kopalova, Zidarova & Levkov

• Main Authors: Chattová, Barbora, Lebouvier, Marc, Haan, Myriam De, Vijver, Bart Van De
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Chromista; Ochrophyta; Bacillariophyceae; Naviculales; Diadesmidaceae; Luticola; Luticola subcrozetensis; Antarctic; The Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; Indian; Livingston Island; Gough; Saint-Paul; Holo; Antarc*; Antarctica; Rockhopper penguin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5628935; https://zenodo.org/record/5628935

Luticola subcrozetensis Van de Vijver, Kopalová, Zidarova & Levkov Figs 13‒26 Diatoms of Europe: Diatoms of the European Inland Waters and Comparable Habitats 7: 228, pl. 46 figs 15‒31, pl. 47 figs 4‒6 (Levkov et al. 2013). Type ILE DE LA POSSESSION: Crozet Archipelago, sub-Antarctica, 5 Dec. 1999, B. Van de Vijver (holo-: slide no. BR ‒4290; iso-: slides BRMZU 9 /25, MKNDC 006278 / B). Description Light microscopy (Figs 13–22) Valves rhombic-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate and even elliptic in smaller specimens with clearly convex margins and broadly rounded, non-protracted apices. Valve dimensions (n = 25): length 12‒ 29 µm, width 7.0‒8.5 µm. Axial area linear, slightly widening towards apices and central area. Central area bow-tie shaped, wider opposite the isolated pore, bordered by shortened striae on both sides. An isolated pore present in the central area, located halfway between the valve centre and the valve margin. Raphe branches straight, bent away from the isolated pore at both proximal and distal ends. Striae radiate throughout the entire valve, 15‒17 in 10 µm. Scanning electron microscopy (Figs 23–26) Striae composed of 3–5 small, rounded to slightly elongated areolae at the apices, only 1–2 rounded areolae per stria, extending past the terminal raphe fissures on the valve face (Fig. 23). A single row of rounded areolae present along entire valve mantle, interrupted at apices (Fig. 26). Isolated pore rounded, slightly elongated, not associated with a stria. Central area usually bordered by one, rarely two, series of small, rounded areolae. Raphe branches straight to slightly curved. Proximal raphe endings bent to the side opposite the isolated pore, terminating into weakly developed pores. Terminal raphe fissures bent to the same side as the proximal endings terminating on the valve face, not extending onto the mantle (Fig. 24). Ecology and distribution Luticola subcrozetensis is a typical sub-Antarctic and Maritime Antarctic species. Originally described from Ile de la Possession (Crozet archipelago), the species was also reported from Livingston Island (Zidarova et al. 2016), one of the major South Shetland Islands, located in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The species was recently found in moss samples from Gough Island (Vinšová, unpubl. res.). It was present in samples from both Ile Saint-Paul and Ile Amsterdam. The largest population was observed in a soil sample collected near the rockhopper penguin rookery of Ile Saint-Paul, at an altitude of 110 m, hidden in cracks in the rocks that border the penguin rookery. : Published as part of Chattová, Barbora, Lebouvier, Marc, Haan, Myriam De & Vijver, Bart Van De, 2017, The genus Luticola (Bacillariophyta) on Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul (Southern Indian Ocean) with the description of two new species, pp. 1-17 in European Journal of Taxonomy 387 on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.387, http://zenodo.org/record/1133653 : {"references": ["Levkov Z., Metzeltin D. & Pavlov A. 2013. Diatoms of Europe: Diatoms of the European Inland Waters and Comparable Habitats. Vol. 7. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koningstein.", "Zidarova R., Kopalova K. & Van der Vijver B. 2016. Diatoms from the Antarctic region: maritime Antarctica. Iconographia Diatomologica 24: 1 - 504."]}