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DIATOM RESEARCH
Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 281-290Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0269249X.2021.1982778
Keywords
new species; Brachysira; Brachysira chiaruccii; mountain lakes; Lombardy; Corsica; reference sites; biodiversity; pH-alkalinity gradient
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- programme 'For the sustainable management of mountain lakes in Corsica'
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Brachysira chiaruccii is a newly discovered faintly heteropolar diatom species found in two lakes in northern Italy and Corsica. This species can be differentiated from similar species by valve outline, symmetry, shape of apices and central area, striation density, size, anchor-shaped terminal raphe endings, and ecology, and is known to colonize oligotrophic, circumneutral mountain lakes in the region.
A faintly heteropolar Brachysira species, with an acutely rounded headpole and a base pole which is sometimes slightly protracted, found in two lakes in northern Italy and Corsica, is described and named Brachysira chiaruccii sp. nov. This proposed new species can be differentiated from similar species by recognizable characters or character combinations: valve outline and symmetry, shape of the apices and of the central area, striation density, size, anchor-shaped terminal raphe endings (SEM feature), ecology. Brachysira chiaruccii sp. nov. is so far known to colonize oligotrophic, circumneutral, sufficiently buffered, moderately low conductivity mountain lakes, whilst the typical habitat of the most similar (North American) heteropolar Brachysira species (B. ocalanensis) is dystrophic, very low alkalinity and pH environments. The description is based on SEM and LM micrographs which document the full spectrum of shape variability along the size diminution series (including girdle views), plastid arrangement and morphology, and ecological preferences, in particular along the pH-alkalinity gradient.
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