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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON OF TURKEY NESLIHAN BALKIS*
Abstract: The present paper reports three species of dinoflagellates viz., Ceratium
deflexum (Kofoid) Jörgensen, Ceratium longissimum (Schröder)
Kofoid, Triposolenia bicornis Kofoid and three species of diatoms
viz., Lyrella lyra (Ehrenberg) Karajeva, Pleurosigma reversum
Gregory, Trachyneis aspera (Ehrenberg) Cleve, all belonging to
marine phytoplankton for the first time from coastal waters of Turkey.
Ceratium deflexum was also new record for the Aegean Sea and
Pleurosigma reversum for the Eastern Mediterranean. Original
photographs and some ecological and morphological characteristics of
six phytoplankton species are given. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Istanbul University, 34118 Vezneciler-Istanbul, Turkey. Corresponding Author: neslbalk@istanbul.edu.tr |
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