Arthrospira neapolitana (Kützing ex Gomont) F.E.Drouet

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Oscillatoriophycideae
Order Oscillatoriales
Family Phormidiaceae
Subfamily Phormidioideae
Genus Arthrospira

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Publication details
Arthrospira neapolitana (Kützing ex Gomont) F.E.Drouet 1969: 339

Original publication: Drouet, F. (1969). Homonymy in Arthrospira Stizenb. (Oscillatoriaceae). Phytologia 18: p 339.

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Arthrospira is Arthrospira jenneri Stizenberger.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Phormidium breve (Kützing ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek

Basionym
Oscillatoria neapolitana Kützing ex Gomont

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), belonging to Naples in Italy (Stearn 1973).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Arthrospira neapolitana (Kützing ex Gomont) F.E.Drouet)
Europe: Italy (Furnari et al. 2003), Marche (Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982).

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

North America: Virginia (Humm 1979).

Africa: Ghana (Lawson & John 1987).

Nomenclatural notes
Lawson & John (1987: 341) cite this species as Arthrospira neapolitana (Gomont) Drouet, 1969.

Key references
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.

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

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=Arthrospira&Species=neapolitana

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 04 August 2000 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 17 March 2010 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 295 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=23770

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.