Algae of Ukraine
Diversity, Nomenclature, Taxonomy, Ecology and Geography. Ed. by Petro M. Tsarenko, Solomon P. Wasser and Eviatar Nevo: Volume 2: Bacillariophyta. 2009. 18 plates (SEM & line - figs.). II, 612 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. - In English, with Latin nomenclature and Latin species index.
(ISBN 978-3-906166-79-7)
Price: 88.00
Deals with 945 species in 157 genera of Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, and Bacillariophyceae. For all taxa nomenclatural data including basionym, main synonyms, occurrence and distribution in Ukraine, with references to world distribution. Atlas of original drawings and
microphotographs of new and rare Ukrainian taxa.
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Diatoms of Europe
Diatoms of the European Inland Waters and Comparable
Habitats. Edited by H. Lange - Bertalot. Volume 5: Levkov. Zlatko: Amphora sensu lato. 2009. 287 photogr. plates. 916 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. (ISBN 978-3-906166-73-5)
Price: EUR 235.00
This volume presents the first part of a synopsis and revision
of Amphora Ehrenberg ex Kützing sensu lato, and contains
taxa that share dorsiventral valve asymmetry and in the past
were considered as members of this genus. The synopsis
includes taxa from the following genera: Amphora sensu stricto (or subgenus Amphora Cleve), Halamphora (Cleve) Levkov (or subgenus Halamphora Cleve), as well as selected species from the subgenera Amblyamphora Cleve Psammamphora
Cleve and Diplamphora Cleve, and species from the recentlyestablished genera Eunophora Vyverman, Sabbe & Mann and Colliculoamphora D. M. Williams & Reid.
The synopsis covers mostly species from the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere, including Europe, Asia and North
America, but also many localities in Africa and South America. Special attention was paid to taxonomy and distribution of the species of Amphora sensu stricto in the ancient lakes, Baikal, Tanganyika, Ohrid, Prespa, Biwa, Aoki and Hövsgöl. It also includes species primarily known from North America and/or North Asia and several marine and brackish water species from European coasts and estuaries.
The synopsis includes observations of species described by
Kützing, W. Smith and Hustedt, Reichelt, Østrup, Krasske,
Cholnoky, Giffen, Foged, J. Carter, Hohn & Hellerman, Patrick, & Freese, Haworth, Gasse, Krammer, Metzeltin and Lange-Bertalot based on type material. More than 240 taxa were observed and 79 new species were described as new to science. Of these, 62 belong to the genus Amphora, 16 to Halamphora and one to Eunophora. The species are illustrated with LM and SEM microphotographs arranged on
262 plates. Detailed explanations of morphology of valves and frustule as well as ultrastructure are given on more than 240 pages. After each genus or subgenus, a key for identification is provided.
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Diatom Monographs
Edited by Andrzej Witkowski: Volume 10: Sar, Eugenia
A., Silvia E. Sala, Inés Sunesen, M. Silvina Henninger and Mercedes Montastruc: Catalogo de los generos, especies y taxa infraespecificos erigidos por J. Frenguelli / Catalogue of the genera, species, and infraspecific taxa erected by J. Frenguelli. 2009. Many line - drawings.
419 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
(ISBN 978-3-906166-78-0)
Price: 110.00
Frenguelli's vast work and his collections (from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Egypt, Somalia and Antarctica) constitute a primary reference for those who undertake the study of the South American diatom flora and / or work on taxonomic and / or nomenclatural revisions of genera, species, varieties and forms erected by the
author. The protologues are in the original language, Spanish or Italian, in order to avoid possible translation problems, accompanied by Latin diagnosis or descriptions, if available. Arrangement of taxa is alphabetically by names given by Frenguelli, without consideration of
subsequent taxonomic or nomenclatural changes. In this catalogue are included new taxa: genera, species, varieties and forms. New combinations and the new names given by Frenguelli in the taxonomic and nomenclatural remarks are given only if they are linked to a new taxon of the author. Excluded are all suprageneric taxa, most of which had already been described by other authors as groups or subgenera and that are not linked to Frenguelli's type material. The 421 taxa described by Frenguelli and included in this catalogue had been published originally in 38 papers listed and are consecutively numbered in this book.
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Iconographia Diatomologica
Annotated Diatom Micrographs. Ed by Horst Lange - Bertalot: 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. (ISBN 978-3-906166-62-9)
Price: EUR 138.00 (Approx. US$ 207.00)
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 sampledwas 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 etal. (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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Iconographia Diatomologica
Annotated Diatom Micrographs. Ed by Horst Lange - Bertalot: Volume 20: Ditmar Metzeltin, Horst Lange - Bertalot
and Soninkhishig Nergui: Diatoms in Mongolia. 2009. 3487 figs. on 271 photographic plates. 684 p. gr8vo. - (Bound with:) Li Yanling, Horst Lange - Bertalot and Ditmar Metzeltin: Sichuania lacustris spec. et gen. nov. an as yet monospecific genus from oligotrophic high mountain lakes in the Chinese province of Sichuan. 2009. 55 figs. on 5 plates.
16 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. Bound.
(ISBN 978-3-906166-77-3)
Price: 198.00
The first contribution in this volume investigates mainly the province of Khentii, covering an area with dominating higher or lower mountain ranges and tablelands above 600 m.s.l. Thus the diatom flora was supposed to resemble alpine and northern regions of Europe rather than
mediterranean - like or subtropical regions, which proved to be correct. The 3487 micrographs reproduced in this book encompass approximately 615 taxa - without any attempt to approach completeness in this first volume of a treatise. 65 taxa (64 from Mongolia) are described as new
to science, 33 other taxa (noted as (?nov.)spec.) will prove probably as new species after some more information, about 114 taxa could not be identified sufficiently as established taxa nor do they possess convincing characters to be distinguished from more or less similar taxa. - The second smaller monograph in this volume deals with
Sichuania lacustris, a biraphid diatom possessing an unique frustule morphology, completely dissimilar to all established taxa from freshwater habitats.
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Flora Graeca
sive plantarum rariorum historia, quas in provinciis aut insulis Graeciae legit, investigavit et depingi curavit
Johannes Sibthorp,...hic illam etiam insertae sunt pauculae species
quas vir idem clarissimus, Graeciam versus navigam, in itinere, praesertim apud Italiam et Siciliam, invenerit. Characteres omnium, Volumes 1 - 2 (Centuria Prima et Secunda). 1806 - 1816. Annotated re-issue. 2009. 202 full-page col. plates. 200 col. distr. maps. VII,
412 p. 4to. Hardcover. - Prepared and edited by Arne Strid and Barbro Strid. With a new introduction.
(ISBN 978-3-906166-70-4)
Price: 210.00
This is, according to the editors, a 'pseudo -facsimile' edition. The original Flora Graeca is in folio format. To reproduce it in this size would be unpractical, and the plates have thus been somewhat reduced to fit a print area of 16 x 24 cm. Small plants sometimes occupy only a portion of the centre of an otherwise blank page in the
original, with the calligraphed name at the far bottom. In such cases the size has been modified so that the drawing fills a reasonable part of the page and the name has sometimes been moved closer. For each
species there is a two - page spread. The colour plate is reproduced on the right - hand page. On the upper half of the facing left - hand page is a text block in English and on the lower half a dot map produced from the more than 700,000 records stored in the Flora Hellenica
Database (for species not occurring within the borders of present - day Greece the map is omitted). The text block contains the following elements: a) Currently accepted scientific name, with authority and place of publication, b)Important synonyms, with authority but without
place of publication, c) Comments on taxonomic status, distribution, ecology, flowering time and other features of interest, d) A brief description, emphasizing diagnostic characters. The re-issue will be
published in 5 volumes, each corresponding to two volumes of the original Flora Graeca. The original Latin text from Flora Graeca will be appended in a CD in the last volume. Indices will also be provided in the last volume.
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