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A First Finding and Morphology of the Neglected Diatom Genus Pseudostaurosiropsis from Anthropogenically Impacted Urban Lake in India

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Pseudostaurosiropsisgeocollegarum (Witkowski) Morales is reported for the first time from India. This is very rare and neglected species was found from a Powai Lake in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. This species was described from Poland. P.geocollegarum differs from other three members of the genus Pseudostaurosiropsis by the shape of the valves, size and number of striae in 10 µm. The present study marks the first report of Pseudostaurosiropsis to Asia with ultrastructural details. This work also highlights the biodiversity value of lesser known urban biodiversity. New taxonomic combination is suggested, Pseudostaurosiropsis triradiatum (Morales) Kulikovskiy, Glushchenko et B. Karthick stat. nov. on the basis of Pseudostaurosiropsis geocollegarum f. triradiatum Morales 2005.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Samadhan Pardhi for his help during collection and enumeration. The authors also thank The Director, ARI, Pune for the facilities.

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This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR 17-54-45038_Ind_a) and Department of Science and Technology, India (INT/RUS/RFBR/ P-297) to MK and BK and All India Coordinated Project on Taxonomy (AICOPTAX), Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (22018/16/2016-RE(Tax)).

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    C. Radhakrishnan & B. Karthick

  2. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    M. Kulikovskiy, A. Glushchenko & I. Kuznetsova

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Radhakrishnan, C., Kulikovskiy, M., Glushchenko, A. et al. A First Finding and Morphology of the Neglected Diatom Genus Pseudostaurosiropsis from Anthropogenically Impacted Urban Lake in India. Inland Water Biol 13, 170–177 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995082920020273

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