Closterium praelongum Brébisson

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Charophyta
Class Conjugatophyceae
Order Desmidiales
Family Closteriaceae
Genus Closterium

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Yardley Chase, Northamptonshire, UK. BF image.. 01 Oct 2009. © C.F. Carter (Chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; ditch, 200x, DIC. 13 Apr 2008. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; ditch, 400x, DIC. 13 Apr 2008. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Closterium praelongum Brébisson Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; ditch, 200x, DIC

Publication details
Closterium praelongum Brébisson 1856: 152, pl. II: fig. 41

Original publication: Brébisson, [L.] A. de (1856). Liste des Desmidiées, observées en Basse-Normandie. Mémoires de la Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg 4: 113-166, pls I, II.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Closterium is Closterium lunula Ehrenberg & Hemprich ex Ralfs.

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Closterium praelongum var. porosum (Gutwinski) Krieger 1935

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Closterium praelongum Brébisson)
Ireland: Mayo (John & Williamson 2009).

Europe: Austria (Lenzenweger 1996), Britain (Brook & Johnson 2002, Whitton et al. 2003, Brook & Williamson 2010), Czech Republic (Stastny 2010), France (Kouwets 1999, Anon. 2012), Ireland (John, Williamson & Guiry 2011), Italy (Abdelahad et al. 2003), Netherlands (Coesel 1983), Portugal (Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Romania (Caraus 2012), Slovenia (Vrhovsek et al. 2006), Spain (Alvárez Cobelas 1984, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Turkey (Europe) (Sahín 2005).

Africa: Burkina Faso (Zongo et al. 2011).

South-west Asia: Pakistan (Shahnaz et al. 2007), Turkey (Asia) (Soylu & Gonulol 2006).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), New Zealand (Croasdale & Flint 1986, Broady et al. 2012), Queensland (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004).

Key references
Brook, A.J. & Johnson, L.R. (2002). Order Zygnematales. In: The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 479-593. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brook, A.J. & Williamson, D.B. (2010). A monograph on some British desmids. Order Zygnematales Suborder Zygonemoidiineae Family Zygnemataceae Subfamily Mesotaenioideae (Saccoderm desmids) and Suborder Closteriineae Family Peniaceae and Family Closteriaceae. Edited by J.H. Price & N.J. Evans. pp. [i-ii], iii-v [1-5], 6-364, 157 pls. London: The Ray Society.

Coesel, P.F.M. & Meesters, K.[J.] (2007). Desmids of the Lowlands Mesotaeniaceae and Desmidaceae of the European Lowlands. pp. [1]-351, 20 text-figs, 123 pls. Zeist: KNNV Publishing.

Croasdale, H.T. & Flint, E.A. (1986). Flora of New Zealand. Freshwater algae, Chlorophyta, Desmids. Vol. 1 pp. i-xii, 1-133, 27 pls. Wellington: V.R. Ward, Government Printer.

Day, S.A., Wickham, R.P., Entwisle, T.J. & Tyler, P.A. (1995). Bibliographic check-list of non-marine algae in Australia. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series 4: i-vii, 1-276.

John, D.M. & Williamson, D.B. (2009). A practical guide to the desmids of the west of Ireland. pp. [i]-viii, 1-196, 49 pls, 12 col. photogr. 8 line- figs, 1 map, 3 tabs. Galway: Martin Ryan Institute.

Kouwets, F.A.C. (1999). A check-list of desmids (Chlorophyta, Zygnemaphyceae) of France. Patrimoines Natureles 41: 1-148.

Ruzicka, J. (1977). Die Desmidiaceen Mitteleuropas. Vol. 1(1) pp. [i-]-vi, [2], [1]-291, [292]], pls 1-44. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Shahnaz, A., Zarina, A., Masud-ul-Hasan & Shameel, M. (2007). Survey of some Volvocophyta Shameel from Lahore, Pakistan. International Journal of Phycology and Phycochemistry 3(2): 205-212.

Wei, Y.X. (2003). Flora algarum sinicarum aquae dulcis, Tomus VII. Chlorophyta Zygnematales Mesotaeniaceae Demidiales Desmidiaceae Section I. pp. 1-267, pls I-LII [1-52]. Beijing: Science Press.

West, W. & West, G.S. (1904). A monograph of the British Desmidiaceae. I. pp. [i]-xxxvi, [1]-224, pl. 1-32. London: The Ray Society.

Zongo, B., Zongo, F., Ouattara, A. & Boussim, J.I. (2011). A taxonomic study of the genus Closterium Nitzsch ex Ralfs (Zygnematophyceae, Streptophyta) in tempory ponds in Burkino Faso, West Africa. Cryptogamie Algologie 32(3): 255-270.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 1151 Closterium praelongum
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Closterium&species=praelongum

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=Closterium&Species=praelongum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 13 December 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 723 times since it was created.

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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:56424