On Pliocaenicus costatus (Bacillariophyceae) in Lake El'gygytgyn, East Siberia:

• Main Authors: Cremer, H., Vijver, B. van de
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Geosciences; Lake El'gygytgyn; Morphology; Phytoplankton; Pliocaenicus costatus; Siberia; Taxonomy; diatom; fossil; lake ecosystem; scanning electron microscopy; Chukchi; Eurasia; Lake Baikal; Russian Federation; Bacillariophyceae; Bacillariophyta; Pliocaenicus; Crater Lake; Fossil Lake
• Online Access: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8ae5ed11-cc85-485f-b24c-a6bebd580a1d

Pliocaenicus is a small, mainly fossil diatom genus that only rarely occurs in modern freshwater environments in eastern Russia. The only extant taxon of this genus, Pliocaenicus costatus , was studied from phytoplankton samples collected in Lake El'gygytgyn, a deep, ultraoligotrophic and low-c...