Four new species from the diatom (Bacillariophyceae) genus Adlafia Moser, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin from waterbodies of Vietnam

Anton M Glushchenko; John Patrick Kociolek; Irina V Kuznetsova; Maxim S Kulikovskiy

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.162.57657

Four new species from the diatom (Bacillariophyceae) genus Adlafia Moser, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin from waterbodies of Vietnam

PhytoKeys. 2020 Oct 7:162:13-27. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.162.57657. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Anton M Glushchenko¹, John Patrick Kociolek^{2

3}, Irina V Kuznetsova¹, Maxim S Kulikovskiy¹

Affiliations

¹ K. A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS, IPP RAS, 35 Botanicheskaya St., Moscow, 127276, Russia.
² Museum of Natural History, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
³ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA.

Abstract

Four species of the diatom genus Adlafia were found from waterbodies of Vietnam and described as new to science. Their formal descriptions are presented herein and they are illustrated by light and scanning electron micrographs. These new species are: A. lamdongiensis Glushch., Kulik. & Kociolek, sp. nov., A. babeiensis Glushch., Kulik. & Kociolek, sp. nov., A. vietnamensis Glushch., Kulik. & Kociolek, sp. nov. and A. dauiensis Glushch., Kulik. & Kociolek, sp. nov. These species are then compared to other similar taxa. Our new findings add to the number of species in this interesting genus and contribute to our understanding of the unique diatom flora found in Vietnam.

Keywords: Adlafia; Southeast Asia; Vietnam; diatoms; morphology; new species.

Anton M. Glushchenko, John Patrick Kociolek, Irina V. Kuznetsova, Maxim S. Kulikovskiy.