New and interesting diatoms from Tibet: I. Description of a new species ofClipeoparvusWoodbridge et al.

A new freshwater Gomphonema Ehrenberg (Bacillariophyta) species from Eastern Himalayas, India

“…It seems likely that this feature of asymmetry about both the apical and transapical axes in members of the Cymbellales has been achieved independently many times, rather than a feature that is diagnostic for a natural group of taxa. Recently many novel taxa representing multiple lineages of diatoms were described from Asia, in particular, tropical Asia (Glushchenko et al 2019a, b;Thacker et al 2019;Liu et al 2019;Roy et al 2019;Kulikovskiy et al 2020). These discoveries confirm that Asia is the hotspot of diatom diversification as proposed by Kociolek (2019) and the same finding need to be strengthened using molecular phylogenetic tools.…”

New and interesting freshwater diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) from a biodiversity hotspot area in China

“…Recent diatom research in China yielded the description of many new species from many area of China, with more than 75 new species reported since 2017, e.g. Li et al (2019), Liu B. et al (2018a, Liu Q. et al (2017;2019a, b), Liu Y. et al (2018aLiu Y. et al ( , b, 2020a, Luo et al (2018),You et al (20172019a, b) Yu et al (2018), Yang et al (2019 and Zhang et al (2018a, b;. The discovery of these new species from Hainan island and South of Guangdong Province indicate these places may have high biodiversity of diatom.…”