Nitzschia gelida Cleve et Grunow

• Main Authors: Al-Handal, Adil Y., Torstensson, Anders, Wulff, Angela
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Psocodea; Menoponidae; Nitzschia; Nitzschia gelida; Antarc*; Antarctica; King George Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11094499; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C487C54309737DFCEFFB4770339901

Nitzschia cf. gelida Cleve et Grunow (Figure 97) Literature: (Lange-Bertalot and Krammer 1987, p. 20, fig. 7:1–3; Witkowski et al. 2000, p. 383, pl. 198, figs. 4–6). Description: Length 68–75 µm, width 10–12 µm, fibulae 4–5 in 10 µm, striae very fine, could not be resolved under LM. Remarks: The specimens observed were rather similar to the Arctic species N. gelida but differed by their very small size. Nitzschia gelida is much larger with length range 120– 140 µm. Ecology and distribution: Nitzschia gelida is a marine species known from the Arctic (Hsiao 1980). Rare in Potter Cove. Published as part of Al-Handal, Adil Y., Torstensson, Anders & Wulff, Angela, 2022, Revisiting Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica, 12 years later: new observations of marine benthic diatoms, pp. 81-103 in Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 65 (2) on page 96, DOI:10.1515/bot-2021-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/11000147