[Lista-Algas] Iconographia Diatomologica

[Andres Boltovskoy]

Forthcoming. Due February  / March 2008.

Iconographia Diatomologica: Annotated Diatom Micrographs. Edited by Horst Lange - Bertalot. 

Volume 17: Antoniades, Dermot, Paul B. Hamilton, Marianne S. V. Douglas and John P. Smol: Diatoms of North America: The freshwater floras of Prince Patrick, Ellef Ringnes and northern Ellesmere Islands from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. 2007. 1500 figs. on 133 plates. 649 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
(ISBN 978-3-906166-50-6)  EUR 149.00 (Approx. US$ 225.00)

Contents: Acknowledgements/ An Introduction to Ellef Ringnes Island, Prince Patrick Island and Nothern Ellesmere Island: Freshwater Ponds and Lakes (Overview/ History of Diatom Research Across the Canadian Arctic)/ Ellef Ringnes, Price Patrick and Northern Ellesmere Islands: Study Area (Climate/ Limnology/ Site Description/ Methods)/ The Diatom Flora (General Information and Terminology/ The Taxa)/ Literature Cited/ Photographic Plates/ Appendices/ Index.- (From the preface:) This project was initiated in 1998 with the development of a surface diatom calibration set for selected regions from the Arctic islands as part of the PhD dissertation of D. Antoniades at the University of Toronto, Canada. Under this study, surface sediments, mosses, rock and other available habitats were studied from 91 ponds and lakes along with sediment cores from several sites. It quickly became clear that many of the diatoms observed from this study were either poorly documented or new and a taxonomic treatment of these diatoms from high latitudes in the Arctic was waranted. Detailed taxonomic studies continued at the Canadian Museum of Nature ussing addition SEM generated images and the extensive reference library.

Volume 19: Hein, Michael K., Barbara M. Winsborough, and Michael J. Sullivan: Bacillariophyta (Diatoms) of the Bahamas. 2008. 806 photomicrographs on 75 plates. 300 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.  EUR 138.00 (Approx. US$ 207.00)
(ISBN 978-3-906166-62-9)

The Bahamas includes more than 700 islands in the warm western waters of the Atlantic, beginning just 100 km off Palm Beach, Florida, and stretching in a great southeasterly arc for more than 1,200 km to the Windward Passage, the entrance to the Caribbean Sea. One hundred twenty-eight collections for diatom analysis from various habitats and substrata were made between 1987 and 1993 in the Bahamas. Collections were primarily of natural substrata, macroalgae, or seagrasses. One of the more unique habitats sampled was actively growing stromatolites at a depth of about 8 m. A total of 379 taxa distributed among 94 genera were observed during this study. Diversity of taxa in most collections was relatively high with most Shannon-Wiener diversity indices above 3.0. All taxa are illustrated with 806 photographs in 75 plates. The genera represented by the greatest number of taxa were Mastogloia (75), Amphora (37), Nitzschia (29), Navicula (25), Cocconeis (20), and Diploneis (17).
Two taxa (Brassierea vivens and Oestrupia grandis) previously have been described by the authors as new taxa. Additional taxa will be published as new species in future publications following completion of detailed SEM study. The present paper considerably expands the number of known diatom taxa from the Bahamas. The publication of the extensive book on benthic marine diatoms by Witkowski et al. (2000) includes many of the taxa found in this study. However,of the 1,183 taxa listed in Witkowski et al., only two (Mastogloia pseudolatecostata Yohn & Gibson and Navicula longa var. irregularis Hustedt) are reported specifically from the Bahamas. Comparison of the taxa previously reported from the Bahamas in other publications indicate 253 of the 312 named taxa listed in this study are new records for the Bahamas.

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We also have a list of some 100 diatom books purchased  from the private library of a known diatomist. The list includes some rare monographs by Arthur Hassal, Frederick Habirshaw, Jospeh Héribaud, Frederick Wm. Mills and others, as well as more recent monographs at reasonable prices. A list is available from p.koeltz at koeltz.com

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