Coleofasciculus chthonoplastes (Gomont) M.Siegesmund, J.R.Johansen & T.Friedl 2008
Current name:
Coleofasciculus chthonoplastes (Gomont) M.Siegesmund, J.R.Johansen & T.Friedl
microscope, Portugal, Aveiro salt-marsh, 2007Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es)
Publication Details
Coleofasciculus chthonoplastes (Gomont) M.Siegesmund, J.R.Johansen & T.Friedl 2008: 1575
Published in: Siegesmund, M.A., Johansen, J.R., Karsten, U. & Friedl, T. (2008). Coleofasciculus gen. nov. (Cyanobacteria): morphological and molecular criteria for revision of the genus Microcoleus Gomont. Journal of Phycology 44: 1572-1585.
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This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Coleofasciculus.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Microcoleus chthonoplastes Thuret ex Gomont
Type Information
Type locality: Denmark: Kattegat (syntypes from "sinus Codani; maris Baltici; oceani Germanici; England; France: Thuringia; Italy; Adriatic; Ceylon; USA; Brazil ; (Index Nominum Algarum) Lectotype fide Drouet 1968: Mertens; January 1816; C (Lyngbye Herb.); (Index Nominum Algarum)
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Description
Trichomes slightly constricted at the cross walls
with one to many trichomes in a common
sheath, with limited gliding
motility, tapering only at the terminal cell, lacking
necridia, 25.5 µm wide. Cells longer than wide,
blue-green to dirty blue-green, minutely granular
in the centroplasm, with phormidiaceaen-type
cell division, thylakoids not visible or appearing
fasciculated, 414 µm long. Apical cell bluntly
rounded after trichome breakage,
becoming elongated and conical, not capitate, without
calyptra.
Habitat
Euhalabous; marine, mat-forming (Siegesmund 2008: 1573, 1572).
Created: 11 March 2009 by G.M. Guiry.
Last updated: 01 May 2022
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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 01 May 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024
