Nitzschia obtusa W. Smith 1853

• 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 obtusa; Antarc*; Antarctica; King George Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11094505; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C487C543167362FF5FF97D77C39E6D

Nitzschia cf. obtusa W. Smith (Figure 99) Literature: (Krammer and Lange-Bertalot 1988, p. 25, fig. 17:1, 2, fig. 18.1; Witkowski et al. 2000. p. 396, pl. 201, figs. 7–9). Description: Length 160–165 µm, width 13–14 µm, fibulae 10–11 in 10 µm, striae very fine. Remarks: This species appears very similar to N. obtusa but has denser fibulae and striae. Nitzschia obtusa , however, is a brackish-water species and unlikely to be found in marine habitats. Ecology and distribution: A widely distributed brackish-water species. 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 97, DOI:10.1515/bot-2021-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/11000147