%0 Journal Article %T Diatomeas (Bacillariophyceae) de Ambientes Acu¨¢ticos de Altura de la Provincia de Catamarca, Argentina II %A Maidana %A Nora I. %A Seeligmann %A Claudia %J Bolet£¿-n de la Sociedad Argentina de Bot£¿£¿nica %D 2006 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this research focusing the diatoms of high topographic wetlands, 14 samples of different freshwater bodies (between 2,420 and 4,240 m a. s. l.) were studied. two hundred and eight infrageneric taxa were identified, 90 of them are new records for the catamarca province. the genera: frankophila and microcostatus and the species achnanthes thermalis var. rumrichorum lange-bertalot; amphora mira krasske; brachysira atacamae hustedt; frankophila similioides lange-bertalot & rumrich; gomphonema punae lange-bertalot & rumrich; haloroundia speciosa diaz & maidana; luticola mollis lange-bertalot & rumrich; mastogloia atacamae hustedt; microcostatus andinus lange-bertalot& rumrich; navicula atacamana patrick; navicula parinacota rumrich & lange-bertalot; planothidium chilense (hustedt) lange-bertalot; staurosira pseudoconstruens (marciniak) lange-bertalot; surirella chilensis var constricta hustedt y surirella wetzellii hustedt are new records for argentina. a new combination is proposed: ulnaria ulna var. constricta. %K diatoms %K high mountains %K puna %K prepuna %K argentina. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-23722006000100001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en