Dictyosphaerium pulchellum H.C.Wood 1873

Mucidosphaerium pulchellum (H.C.Wood) C.Bock, Proschold & Krienitz

Current name: Mucidosphaerium pulchellum (H.C.Wood) C.Bock, Proschold & Krienitz
Colony showing attachment strands. Castle Ashby, Northampton, UK - 17 November 2016. C.F.Carter(chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com

Publication Details
Dictyosphaerium pulchellum H.C.Wood 1873: 84, no fig.

Published in: Wood, H.C. (1873 '1872'). A contribution to the history of the fresh-water algae of North America. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 19(241): i-vii, 1-262.

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Publication date: January 1873 [TL-2]

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Dictyosphaerium is Dictyosphaerium ehrenbergianum Nägeli.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Mucidosphaerium pulchellum (H.C.Wood) C.Bock, Proschold & Krienitz.

Type Information
Type locality: in stagnis prope Philadelphia [USA]; (Wood 1873: 84) Holotype: tab. 10: 4 in Woods 1872: Material of strain UTEX 731, deposited at the Culture collection of Algae at the Univ. of Texas at Austin (epitype) (Bock et al. 2011: 643) Notes: Epitype designated by Bock et al. (2011: 643).

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), beautiful and little (Stearn 1973).

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 12 July 2023

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