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Schizodictyon Kützing, 1843

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Oscillatoriophycideae
Order Oscillatoriales
Family Oscillatoriaceae

Holotype species: Schizodictyon purpurascens Kützing

Currently accepted name for the type species: Symplocastrum purpurascens (Gomont ex Gomont) Anagnostidis

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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Taxonomic status: currently regarded as a synonym of Symplocastrum.

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Numbers of names and species: There are 3 species (and infraspecific) names in the database at present.

Names: ('C' indicates a name that is currently accepted taxonomically; 'S' a homotypic or heterotypic synonym; 'U' indicates a name of uncertain taxonomic status, but which has been subjected to some verification nomenclaturally; 'P' indicates a preliminary AlgaeBase entry that has not been subjected to any kind of verification. For more information on a species click on it to activate a link to the Species database):

Schizodictyon catenatum R.H.Thompson C 
Schizodictyon nigrum Kützing C 
Schizodictyon purpurascens Kützing S - type

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Citing AlgaeBase
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Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:77604

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