Phytoplankton of Lebanon
During the last 40 years of survey in the Lebanese seawaters and the Levantine Basin, we identified and described about 400 species, belonging to 85 genera, including 230 dinoflagellates and 156 diatoms, 10 Silicoflagellates and 4 Ebriidae, many of them are introduced or migrated from Red Sea and Indian Ocean into the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal pathway.
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Phytoplankton of Lebanon
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During the last 40 years of survey in the Lebanese seawaters and the Levantine Basin, we identified and described about 400 species, belonging to 85 genera, including 230 dinoflagellates and 156 diatoms, 10 Silicoflagellates and 4 Ebriidae, many of them are introduced or migrated from Red Sea and Indian Ocean into the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal pathway.
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Biodiversity
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Introduced species
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EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box
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35.433333333333
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35.583333333333
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34.483333333333
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33.916666666667
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MED, Eastern Mediterranean
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35
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36.5
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35
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33
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1967-10-15
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2007-11-25
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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148898
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phylum
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Bacillariophyta
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urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146203
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infraphylum
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Dinoflagellata
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2021-12-02T14:42:16+01:00
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Sami Lakkis (2011). Phytoplancton Marin du Liban ( Méditerranée Orientale): Biologie, Biodiversité, Biogeographie. Aracne Editrice, Rome, Italy, 296 p.
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