Description of the Soil Diatom Sellaphora terrestris sp. nov. (Bacillariophyceae, Sellaphoraceae) from Vietnam, with Remarks on the Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Sellaphora and Systematic Position of Microcostatus

Anton Glushchenko; Elena Kezlya; Yevhen Maltsev; Sergei Genkal; John Patrick Kociolek; Maxim Kulikovskiy

doi:10.3390/plants11162148

Description of the Soil Diatom Sellaphora terrestris sp. nov. (Bacillariophyceae, Sellaphoraceae) from Vietnam, with Remarks on the Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Sellaphora and Systematic Position of Microcostatus

Plants (Basel). 2022 Aug 18;11(16):2148. doi: 10.3390/plants11162148.

Authors

Anton Glushchenko¹, Elena Kezlya¹, Yevhen Maltsev¹, Sergei Genkal², John Patrick Kociolek³, Maxim Kulikovskiy¹

Affiliations

¹ K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS, IPP RAS, 35 Botanicheskaya St., 127276 Moscow, Russia.
² Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters RAS, IBIW RAS, Borok, 152742 Yaroslavl Region, Russia.
³ Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.

Abstract

In material isolated from soils of Cát Tiên National Park, we isolated four strains that were assigned to the genus Sellaphora. Identification was carried out on the basis of morphological and molecular studies. We proposed a new species named Sellaphora terrestris sp. nov. An evolutionary distance matrix, based on the 18S rDNA gene including the V4 domain, showed the new species shared 94.1-97.2% similarities with other Sellaphora sequences. The new species is morphologically similar to species previously identified as representatives of the genus Microcostatus.

Keywords: 18S rDNA; Cát Tiên National Park; diatoms; molecular investigation; morphology; rbcL; soil; southeast asia.

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