Acknowledgement
The authors are grateful to Dr. Suh Byung Moon for his contribution to the description of these new species and for his longtime support in collecting diatoms from Korea. They also thank Jana Bansemer for work in the molecular lab, Juliane Bettig and Monika Lüchow at the SEM, and Michael Rodewald for help with the plates. The authors acknowledge funding by the Friends of the BGBM for cultivation support, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for SEM [INST130/839-1FUGG], for Names Registration [JA874/8-1], and by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung [01LI1501E] for GBOL2 Diatoms, and by the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS) for cooperation.
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