Crenacantha Kützing, 1843

Holotype species: Crenacantha orientalis Kützing

Original publication and holotype designation: Kützing, F.T. (1843). Phycologia generalis oder Anatomie, Physiologie und Systemkunde der Tange. Mit 80 farbig gedruckten Tafeln, gezeichnet und gravirt vom Verfasser. pp. [part 1]: [i]-xxxii, [1]-142, [part 2:] 143-458, 1, err.], pls 1-80. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Description: Plants globose and lime-encrusted, consisting of entangled, uniseriate filaments bearing short whorls of branchlets. Cells cylindrical or barrel-shaped. Method of reproduction unknown. Only known from a fountain at Hebron in Israel. It has been suggested that this incompletely described and little-known taxon is a depauperate growth form of Draparnaldia.

Information contributed by: D. M. John. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-06-26 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Hansgirg, A. (1889). Über die Gattung Crenacantha Ktz., Periplegmatium Ktz. u. Hansgirgia De Toni. Flora (Jena) 72(1): 58-59, 1 fig.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 26 June 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 April 2024