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First Report of the Bacterium Thioploca in the Benguela Ecosystem off Namibia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

V.A. Gallardo ,
E. Klingelhoeffer ,
W. Arntz  and
M. Graco
V.A. Gallardo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción, Chile (e-mail: [email protected])
E. Klingelhoeffer
Affiliation:
National Marine Information and Research Center, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Swakopmund, Namibia.
W. Arntz
Affiliation:
Alfred-Wegener-Polar-und Meeresforschung Institut, Bremerhaven, Germany
M. Graco
Affiliation:
Departamento de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción, Chile (e-mail: [email protected])
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Thioploca are sulphur oxidizing-nitrate reducing gliding filamentous benthic bacteria belonging to the Beggiatoaceae. In this paper we report on the discovery of Thioploca resulting from a commercial fishery survey of Trachurus capensis (horse mackerel) and Merluccius capensis (hake) carried out off Namibia between 18°00·1′S and 25°00·8′S from 4–10 December 1996, on board the RV ‘Welwitschia’. The first positive finding of sheathed, presumably vacuolated, Thioploca in the Benguela Current ecosystem is now reported.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , August 1998 , pp. 1007 - 1010
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1998

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