A new diatom species P. hallegraeffii sp. nov. belonging to the toxic genus Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) from the East Australian Current.

A new species belonging to the toxin producing diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia, P. halle graeffii sp. nov., is delineated and described from the East Australian Current (EAC). A total of 18 Pseudo-nitzschia species, including three confirmed toxigenic species (P. cuspidata, P. multistriata and P. australis) have now been unequivocally confirmed from eastern Australia.The data has been acquired on the following RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V04 with links to additional metadata, datasets, events, deployments, publications etc.If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.