Table. 3.

Checklist of identified diatoms species of the Chipoco River studied and their abundance with respect to the total number of species

Taxa ID Habitat Northern Chipoco River (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e) (%) Central Chipoco River (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 2e) (%) Southern Chipoco River
(1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e) (%)
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (C. Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 1980 1 FW 25.64 44.55 43.25
Epithemia turgida (Ehrenberg)
Kützing 1844
1 FW 18.31 34.65 32.15
Caloneis bacillum (Grunow)
Cleve 1894
1 FW/MB 14.65 0.0 0.0
Achnanthidium minutissimum (Kützing) Czarnecki 1994 1 FW 9.15 4.9 4.7
Rhopalodia gibberula (Ehrenberg)
O. Müller 1895
1 FW/M 7.32 0.0 0.0
Amphora pediculus (Kützing)
Grunow in Schmidt 1875
1 FW 5.49 4.9 4.7
Pinnularia sp. 1 FW 2.56 1.98 1.95
Amphora sp. 1 FW/M 9.15 1.98 1.95
Nitzschia linearis Smith 1853 1 FW/M 2.56 4.9 4.7
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow)
Lange-Bertalot 1979
1 FW/M 2.56 1.98 1.95
Cyclotella sp. (Kützing) Brébisson 1838 1 FW/M 2.56 0.0 0.0

ID: 1 known cosmopolitan species; FW: freshwater; MB: marine brackish; M: marine.

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