The pennate benthic diatoms of the sand beach of Kruglaya Bay (the Black Sea)
Journal: Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research
Year: 2022

Abstract For the first time in the Kruglaya Bay of the Black Sea, 25 taxa of Bacillariophyta from 17 genera were found, three of them were new for the Crimea and the Black Sea Halamphora tenerrima , Amphora tenuissima , and Navicula antonii . Marine (40%), coastalbrackish (32%) and boreal-tropical (32%), arctic-boreal-tropical (24%), boreal and cosmopolitan (20% and 16%, respectively) prevailed. The morphological characteristics of the species in the SEM (scanning electronic microscope) and LM (