Diatoms from Lake Ikeda, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Abstract

Diatom assemblages were collected f r om Lake Ikeda in January 2002, and a total of 141 taxa from 29 genera were recorded. The dominant taxa were Asterionella formosa and Fragilaria crotonensis in the plankton, and Fragilaria construens var. binodis and Cymbella minuta in the sediments.