Nitzschia hybrida Grunow (Figure 98) Literature: (Krammer and Lange-Bertalot 1988, p. 61, pl. 46, figs. 3–6; Witkowski et al. 2000, p. 385, pl. 191, figs. 12–14). Description: Length 61–76 µm, width 9–11 µm, fibulae 10– 11 in 10 µm, striae 26–28 in 10 µm. Remarks: Observed specimens had denser striae than previously found in this region (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b). Ecology and distribution: A widely distributed marine and brackish-water species, reported from the Arctic (von Quillfeldt 2000). Common in Potter Cove.

Published as part of Al-Handal, Adil Y., Torstensson, Anders & Wulff, Angela, 2022, Revisiting Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica, 12 years later: new observations of marine benthic diatoms, pp. 81-103 in Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 65 (2) on pages 96-97, DOI: 10.1515/bot-2021-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/11000147