Journal article
Species of Thaumatomastix (Thaumatomastigidae, Protista incertae sedis) from the Arctic sea ice biota (North-East Water Polynya, NE Greenland)
University of Copenhagen, Botanical Institute, Department of Phycology, Øster Farimagsgade 2D, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark1
Department of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Hydrobiology, P.O. Box 17 (Arkadiankatu 7), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland2
The sea ice biota of polar regions contains numerous heterotrophic flagellates very few of which have been properly identified. The whole mount technique for transmission electron microscopy enables the identification of loricate and scaly forms. A survey of Arctic ice samples (North-East Water Polynya, NE Greenland) revealed the presence of ca. 12 taxa belonging to the phagotrophic genus Thaumatomastix (Protista incertae sedis).
Species of Thaumatomastix possess siliceous body scales and one naked and one scale-covered flagellum. The presence in both Arctic samples and sea ice material previously examined from the Antarctic indicates that this genus is most likely ubiquitous in polar sea ice and may be an important component in sea ice biota microbial activities.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 1997 |
| Pages: | 263-277 |
| ISSN: | 18791573 and 09247963 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0924-7963(96)00078-4 |
