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Calothrix parietina (Nägeli) Thuret

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Nostocophycideae
Order Nostocales
Family Rivulariaceae
Genus Calothrix

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Prox. In a warm spring. Near Snaefellsjökul, NW Iceland.. 06 Jul 2011. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Prox. In a warm spring with invertebrate remains. Near Snaefellsjökul, NW Iceland.. 06 Jul 2011. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Prox. In a warm spring. Near Snaefellsjökul, NW Iceland.. 06 Jul 2011. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Prox. Lamellated sheath and basal heterocyst. In a warm spring. Near Snaefellsjökul, NW Iceland.. 06 Jul 2011. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Calothrix parietina (Nägeli) Thuret Prox. In a warm spring. Near Snaefellsjökul, NW Iceland.

Publication details
Calothrix parietina (Nägeli) Thuret 1875: 381

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Calothrix is Calothrix confervicola C.Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault.

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

Basionym
Schizosiphon parietinus Nägeli

Type information
Type locality: Zürich, Switzerland (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 73).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Schizosiphon parietinus Nägeli 1849

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Calothrix parietina (Nägeli) Thuret)
Arctic: Ellesmere Island (Croasdale 1973).

Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Italy (Furnari et al. 2003, Furnari et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Aboal & Llimona 1984b, Aboal 1988, Alvarez-Cobelas & Gallardo 1988, Aboal 1989, Aboal, Prefasi & Asencio 1996, Aboal 1996, Aboal 1996, Cantoral Uiza & Aboal Sanjurjo 2001, Bárbara et al. 2005, Aboal & Puig 2005), Turkey (Europe) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010), Florida (Dawes 1974), Virginia (Humm 1979).

Africa: Benin (Lawson & John 1987), Togo (Lawson & John 1987).

Indian Ocean Islands: Seychelles (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996).

South-west Asia: Bangladesh (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Israel (Vinogradova et al. 2000), Pakistan (Leghari et al. 2005, Mehwish & Aliya 2005), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), New Zealand (Chapman 1956), Queensland (Day et al. 1995, Phillips 2002, Bostock & Holland 2010), Tasmania (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

Pacific Islands: Federated States of Micronesia (Lobban & Tsuda 2003), Marshall Islands (Taylor 1950).

Nomenclatural notes
Lawson & John (1987) cite this species as Calothrix parietina Bornet & Flahault, 1886a.

Key references
Leghari, M.K., Qureshi, R.M., Mashiatullah, A., Yaqoob, N. & Javed, T. (2005). Harmful algal species from various freshwater localities of Pakistan. Int. J. Phycol. Phycochem. 1(2): 199-206.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 1952 Calothrix parietina
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CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 1410/10 Calothrix parietina (Nägeli) Thuret
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Calothrix&species=parietina

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=Calothrix&Species=parietina

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 22 March 2001 by Sandy Lawson

Verified by: 28 May 2007 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1357 times since it was created.

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

Livingstone, D., Khoja, T.M. & Whitton, B.A. (1983). Influence of phosphorus on physiology of a hair-forming blue-green alga (Calothrix parietina) from an upland stream. Phycologia 22: 345-350, 5 figs, 1 table.

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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 20 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:59339

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