Aphanocapsa marina Hansgirg

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Synechococcophycideae
Order Synechococcales
Family Merismopediaceae
Subfamily Merismopedioideae
Genus Aphanocapsa

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Publication details
Aphanocapsa marina Hansgirg 1890: 169-170

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Aphanocapsa is Aphanocapsa parietina Nägeli.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), growing in the sea (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Anacystis marina (Hansgirg) Drouet & Dailey 1948
Microcystis marina (Hansgirg) P.C.Silva 1996

General environment
This is a marine/freshwater species.

Type information
Type locality: Sydvaranger, Finnmark, Norway (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 30).

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Aphanocapsa marina Hansgirg)
Ireland: Dublin (Adams 1908).

Europe: Britain (Batters 1902, Whitton et al. 2003), Ireland (Adams 1908), Spain (Bárbara et al. 2005).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Haroun et al. 2002, Haroun et al. 2003, Anon 2011).

Indian Ocean Islands: Mauritius (Silva & Pienaar 2000 ).

(as Anacystis marina (Hansgirg) Drouet & Dailey)
Arctic: Ellesmere Island (Croasdale 1973).

Europe: Italy (Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Guadalupe et al. 1995).

North America: Virginia (Humm 1979).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Chapman 1956).

(as Microcystis marina (Hansgirg) P.C.Silva)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Canary Islands (Aldanondo-Aristizábal, Domínguez-Alvarez & Gil-Rodríguez 2003).

South-west Asia: Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Key references
Komárek, J. & Anagnostidis, K. (1999). Cyanoprokaryota. 1. Chroococcales. In: Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. (Ettl, H., Gärtner, G., Heynig, H. & Mollenhauer, D. Eds) Vol. 19, pp. 1-548. Heidelberg; Berlin: Spektrum, Akad. Verl..

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.W. & Moe, R.L. (1996). Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: 1-1259.

Silva, S.M.F. & Pienaar, R.N. (2000). Some benthic marine cyanophyceae of Mauritius. Botanica Marina 43: 11-27, 86 figs.

Whitton, B.A. (2011). Cyanobacteria (Cyanophyta). In: The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. Second edition. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 31-158. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

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=Aphanocapsa&Species=marina

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 03 August 2000 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 22 May 2013 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 304 times since it was created.

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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 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:60436