عنوان

Otto Müller's Surirella taxa (Bacillariophyta) from East Africa, based on a historical collection kept at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B)

شماره

LA107633

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Otto Müller's Surirella taxa (Bacillariophyta) from East Africa, based on a historical collection kept at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B)

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Christine Cocquyt, Wolf-Henning Kusber, Regine Jahn, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

At the beginning of the 20th century, Otto Müller described over 100 new freshwater diatom taxa from algae samples, collected during the German "Nyassa-See- und Kinga-Gebirgs-Expedition" in East Africa. He published valuable drawings and wrote detailed descriptions of these microalgae, but subsequent authors regarded many of these African taxa to be synonyms or infraspecific of European species. In the last two decades renewed attention to the diatom flora of East Africa has made it evident that Müller's taxa have to be reinvestigated, in terms of both light as well as scanning electron microscopy, in order to evaluate possible new or endemic species. This was recently done for his Surirella taxa, a typical component of the African Great Lakes diatom flora of which many species are endemic to this area. Additional data, originating from material of later periods in the same region (e.g. Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, Victoria, Edward), was incorporated in the investigation to study the variability in valve morphology and the African distribution of each species. Otto Müller's samples thus provide the means to study historical African diatom diversity as a baseline for modern biodiversity assessment Type information and the English description for taxon have been published in international journals and online at the AlgaTerra Information System [www.algaterra.org], a site developed and updated by the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM). High resolution digital photographs of the Surirella taxa will also be available in the future on the API website [www.aluka.org. At the beginning of the 20th century, Otto Müller described over 100 new freshwater diatom taxa from algae samples, collected during the German "Nyassa-See- und Kinga-Gebirgs-Expedition" in East Africa. He published valuable drawings and wrote detailed descriptions of these microalgae, but subsequent authors regarded many of these African taxa to be synonyms or infraspecific of European species. In the last two decades renewed attention to the diatom flora of East Africa has made it evident that Müller's taxa have to be reinvestigated, in terms of both light as well as scanning electron microscopy, in order to evaluate possible new or endemic species. This was recently done for his Surirella taxa, a typical component of the African Great Lakes diatom flora of which many species are endemic to this area. Additional data, originating from material of later periods in the same region (e.g. Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, Victoria, Edward), was incorporated in the investigation to study the variability in valve morphology and the African distribution of each species. Otto Müller's samples thus provide the means to study historical African diatom diversity as a baseline for modern biodiversity assessment Type information and the English description for taxon have been published in international journals and online at the AlgaTerra Information System [www.algaterra.org], a site developed and updated by the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM). High resolution digital photographs of the Surirella taxa will also be available in the future on the API website [www.aluka.org.

تاريخ نشر

2008

توصيف ظاهري

65-75

عنوان

Afrika Focus

شماره جلد

21/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2031-356X

اصطلاح موضوعی

Algae

اصطلاح موضوعی

Diatoms

اصطلاح موضوعی

East Africa

اصطلاح موضوعی

Historic Collections

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Christine Cocquyt

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Regine Jahn

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Wolf-Henning Kusber

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/2031356X-02101006

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y