Bibliographic Detail
Blanco, S., Álvarez-Blanco, I., Cejudo-Figueiras, C. & Bécares, E., 2012
Reference:
Blanco, S., Álvarez-Blanco, I., Cejudo-Figueiras, C. & Bécares, E. (2012). Contribution to the diatom flora of Cambodia: five new recent freshwater taxa. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 50: 258-266.
Abstract:
Cambodian aquatic ecosystems are extremely diversified and constitute major preservation targets. However,
the species composition, diversity, and distribution of the inhabiting algal communities are largely unknown.
During a sample collection carried out in the Angkor and Banteay Srei monuments area in 2010, several unknown
diatom taxa were found in various population densities in the artificial lakes surrounding these temples. Detailed light
and scanning electron microscopy observations allowed the description of five of them (Pinnularia cambodiana, P.
shivae, Gomphonema angkoricum, G. paradaphnoides, and Frustulia lacus-templi) as taxa new to science. Differential
diagnostic criteria with respect to similar taxa, together with the ecological and environmental implications of
these findings, are briefly discussed.
