the diatom anorthoneis dulcis hein from southern brazil morphology and ecology从巴西南部的硅藻anorthoneis dulcis嗯形态学和生态学.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Research Letters in Ecology Volume 2008, Article ID 140245, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2008/140245 Research Letter The Diatom Anorthoneis dulcis Hein from Southern Brazil: Morphology and Ecology ˆ ´ Garcia Marines and Talgatti Davia Marciana Departamento de Botanica, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, CEP 96010-900 Pelotas, RS, Brazil ˆ ˆ Correspondence should be addressed to Garcia Marines, marines@.br Received 24 July 2007; Accepted 18 October 2007 Recommended by Patricia Mosto A new geographic locality for Anorthoneis dulcis is reported. The paper describes the distribution and relative abundance of A. dulcis in Lagoa dos Patos lagoon (a lagoon in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil) from samples collected between 2004 and 2005, and shows that this rare species is present all year round. This study extends the species distribution to South America indicating that the species can thrive on sand grains in lentic estuarine, and freshwater areas. It widens the range of tolerance to environmental parameters. The valve fine structure, morphology, and dimensions are in agreement with the original diagnosis. ˆ Copyright © 2008 G. Marines and T. D. Marciana. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. INTRODUCTION Anorthoneis dulcis Hein was described in 1991 from some ri