Hydrocytium acuminatum

Hydrocytium acuminatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chaetopeltidales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Chlorophyta Subphylum: Chlorophytina Classis: Chlorophyceae Ordo: Chaetopeltidales

Familia: Hydrocytiaceae
Genus: Hydrocytium
Species: Hydrocytium acuminatum

Name

Hydrocytium acuminatum (A.Braun) A.Braun, 1855: 25, pl. 2A

• Type locality: "Ad lapides in aquariis. (v. s.)"
• Lectotype (icon; designated by Barcyte & Eliáš 2023): "illustration 10 of a single cell in plate 2A in Braun (1855)".
• Epitype (designated by Barcyte & Eliáš 2023): Strain SAG 40.91 cryosample D14L41 permanently cryopreserved in a metabolically inactive state at the Culture Collection of Algae (SAG), Georg August University Göttingen, Germany. Figure 1 in Barcyte & Eliáš 2023.

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Characium acuminatum A.Braun, 1849
• Heterotypic
  • Ascidium acuminatum A.Braun, 1850
  • Pseudocharacium acuminatum Korshikov, 1953

References

Primary references

• Braun, A. 1855. Algarum unicellularium genera nova et minus cognita praemissis observationibus de algis unicellularibus in genere. pp. [1]–114, 6 pls. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: W. Engelmann. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Barcyte, D. & Eliáš, M. 2023. Hydrocytium expands the phylogenetic, morphological, and genomic diversity of the poorly known green algal order Chaetopeltidales. American Journal of Botany 110(11, e16238): 1–20. DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16238 Reference page. 

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