Siliceous scales of filose-amoebae (Pompholyxophryidae, Rotosphaerida) from deep Southern Ocean sediments, including first records for the Southern Hemisphere

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Esteban, G.F., Gooday, A.J., Clarke, K.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Biology and Microbiology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Islands; Thomsen; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/701/; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-007-0280-4

The world of protists remains largely unexplored. A thorough electron-microscopic investigation of a few microlitres of deep-sea sediment from 2,964 m water depth near the South Sandwich Islands (Southern Ocean) revealed siliceous scales of filose-amoeba protist species, two of which have not been r...