Merismopedia quadruplicata (Meneghini) Trevisan

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

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Publication details
Merismopedia quadruplicata (Meneghini) Trevisan 1845

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Merismopedia is Merismopedia punctata Meyen.

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

Basionym
Trochiscia quadruplicatum Meneghini

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Trochiscia quadruplicatum Meneghini
Agmenellum quadruplicatum (Meneghini) Brébisson 1839

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Agmenellum quadruplicatum (Meneghini) Brébisson)
Europe: Italy (Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Aboal & Llimona 1984b).

North America: Florida (Dawes 1974), Virginia (Humm 1979).

Australia and New Zealand: Queensland (Day et al. 1995).

Taxonomic notes
Komárek & Anagnostidis (1999: 183) lists this species as an "Unrevised European species"

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. 548. Heidelberg; Berlin: Spektrum, Akad. Verl..

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

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=Merismopedia&Species=quadruplicata

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 29 January 2001 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 23 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 339 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=24470

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 19 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:59745