Chloromonas polyptera (Fritsch) R.W.Hoham, J.E.Mullet & S.C.Roemer

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Chlorophyceae
Order Chlamydomonadales
Family Chlamydomonadaceae
Genus Chloromonas

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Publication details
Chloromonas polyptera (Fritsch) R.W.Hoham, J.E.Mullet & S.C.Roemer 1983

Original publication: Hoham, R.W., Mullet, J.E. & Roemer, S.C. (1983). The life history and ecology of the snow alga Chloromonas polyptera comb. nov. (Chlorophyta, Volvocales). Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 2416-2429.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chloromonas is Chloromonas reticulata (Goroschankin) Gobi.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Scotiella polyptera Fritsch 1912
Pteromonas penardii L.Gain 1912
Scotiella polyptera var. polimantii Kol 1939
Carteria nivalis Kol 1949
Scotiella polyptera var. magellanica Kol 1968

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Carteria nivalis Kol)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012).

Source of synonymy
Muramoto, K., Nakada, T., Shitara, T., Hara, Y. & Nozaki, H. (2010). Re-examination of the snow algal species Chloromonas miwae (Fukushima) Muramoto et al., comb nov. (Volvocales, Chlorophyceae) from Japan, based on molecular phylogeny and cultured material. European Journal of Phycology 45(1): 27-37.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Chloromonas&species=polyptera

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Chloromonas&Species=polyptera

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 30 July 2010 by Wendy Guiry

Verified by: 21 September 2012 by M.D. Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Hoham, R.W., Mullet, J.E. & Roemer, S.C. (1983). The life history and ecology of the snow alga Chloromonas polyptera comb. nov. (Chlorophyta, Volvocales). Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 2416-2429.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:96911