New and interesting species from the genus Luticola (Bacillariophyceae) in waterbodies of Southeastern Asia

Book review: Van de Vijver B., Tudesque L. & Ector L. (ed.), Diatom taxonomy and ecology. From France to the sub-Antarctic islands. Celebrating the work and life of Prof. Dr. René Le Cohu on the occasion of his 80th birthday

“…(2017), García & al. (2017) and Glushchenko & al. (2017), important in fields like diatom taxonomy, which is seeing a decrease in recruitment over time.…”

Three new Luticola D.G.Mann (Bacillariophyta) species from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) found in terrestrial diatom assemblages dominated by widely distributed taxa

“…A number of taxa have been described and known to occur or cited in the tropics ( Hustedt, 1937–1939 ) or in high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere ( Heiden & Kolbe, 1928 ; Giffen, 1966 ; Cholnoky, 1954 ). A change in our understanding of the distribution of Luticola taxa is occurred in the mid-1990s and a wealth of Luticola have been described as new to science from tropical rainforests of South America ( Metzeltin & Lange-Bertalot, 1998 ; Metzeltin & Lange-Bertalot, 2005 ; Bustos, Morales & Maidana, 2017 ; Straube, Tremarin & Ludwig, 2017 ; Da Silva-Lehmkuhl et al, 2019 ), in the Andes ( Rumrich, Lange-Bertalot & Rumrich, 2000 ; Simonato et al, 2020 ) and in South-East Asia (e.g., Glushchenko & Kulikovskiy, 2015 ; Glushchenko, Kulikovskyi & Kociolek, 2018 ). High diversity of Luticola also has been observed in Antarctica and Sub-Antarctic Islands ( Van de Vijver, Frenot & Beyens, 2002 ; Kopalová et al, 2011 ; Chattová et al, 2017 ; Kochman-Kedziora et al, 2020 ).…”

Luticola rojkoviensis sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta), a new terrestrial diatom from Central Slovakia

“…D.G.Mann, the number of taxa has grown enormously, from 30 in 1990 (Round et al 1990) to 239 taxa in 2020 according to Algaebase (Guiry & Guiry 2020). The increase of new Luticola species reflects intensive studies, mostly based on materials from extreme regions including Antarctica (Van de Vijver et al 2006;Kopalová et al 2009Kopalová et al , 2011Zidarova et al 2014;Kohler et al 2015;Kociolek et al 2017), South America (Wetzel et al 2010;Straube et al 2017), islands in the southern Indian Ocean (Chattová et al 2017), Madagascar (Bąk et al 2019) and Asia (Glushchenko & Kulikovskyi 2015;Glushchenko et al 2017) and also on historical diatomological collections. The number of endemic species from these extreme regions is high, and many of them have been found in soil and subaerial habitats (Kociolek et al 2017).…”