Author:
Mazi Shaima,Ameen Merza Feryal,Alwan Hussain Nawras
Abstract
This review aimed to survey diatom composition in Iraqi waters. The facts were taken from surveys of phytoplankton in Iraq, covering freshwater and saline waters in diverse cities. A total of 454 taxa of the diatom group belonging to Bacillophycaea class have been verified in the review. These taxa varied among 107 genera. The genus Nitzschia had a higher number of taxa followed via Navicula, Cymbella, Fragilaria, and Gomphonema, respectively. This study proposes to present a checklist of diatom composition in Iraq, built on the compilation of preceding investigations
Reference90 articles.
1. Guiry, M.D. (2012). "How many species of algae are there?". Journal of Phycology. 48 (5):1057–1063.doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2012.01222.x. PMID 27011267.
2. Fourtanier, Elisabeth; Kociolek, Journal of Patrick (1999). "Catalogue of the DiatomGenera". DiatomResearch. 14 (1):1- 190. doi:10.1080/0269249X.1999.9705462.
3. The World Register of Marine Species lists 1,356 diatom genus names from all habitats as at July 2020, of which 1,248 are "accepted".
4. Queries to the World Register of Marine Species, July 2020, return 299 "fossil only" genus names, of which 285 are "accepted".
5. Peterson C.G. and Stevenson R.T. (1989) Seasonality in river phytoplankton: multivariate analyses of data from the Ohio river and six Kentucky tributaries.Journal of Hydrobiologia, 182 (2): 99-114.