Ulothrix crenulata (Kützing) Kützing 1849

Publication Details
Ulothrix crenulata (Kützing) Kützing 1849: 350

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1849). Species algarum. pp. [i]-vi, [1]-922. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: F.A. Brockhaus.

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Publication date: 23-24 July 1849

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Ulothrix is Ulothrix tenuissima Kützing.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Klebsormidium crenulatum (Kützing) Lokhorst.

Basionym
Hormidium crenulatum Kützing

Type Information
Type locality: "An feuchten Wänden in Warmhäusern" [On damp walls in warm houses; Padua, Italy]; (Kützing 1845: 193) Lectotype (designated by Lokhorst & Star 1985) : Meneghini; L; sheet 939.67-834 "1/280" (Lokhorst 1996: 30) Notes: Lectotype: annotated as "1/280"', Hormidium crenulatum, Patavii". On wet and warm wall of a bath house, Padua (Mikhailyuk et al., 2015: 762). Epitype: strain SAG 37.86 designated by Mikhailyuk et al. (2015: 762) to support the lectotype and the authentic strain of K. crenulatum. It is cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen in the SAG.It was isolated by H. Trenkwalder (original no. T 93) from a soil from Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy and was previously identified as Ulothrix tenuissima.

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), crenulate, having small rounded teeth (Stearn 1973).

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

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

Last updated: 08 November 2022

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