Cosmocladium saxonicum De Bary
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Charophyta
Class Conjugatophyceae
Order Desmidiales
Family Desmidiaceae
Genus Cosmocladium
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Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland. In bog pool. 22 Sep 2005. Fabio Rindi. © Fabio Rindi (f.rindi@univpm.it).
Gibbs Lake, Washington, USA; 200x, phase contrast. 25 Apr 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).
Gibbs Lake, Washington, USA; 400x, DIC. 25 Apr 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).
Gibbs Lake, Washington, USA; 400x, phase contrast. 25 Apr 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).
Publication details
Cosmocladium saxonicum De Bary 1865: 329, pl. IV: figs 1-3
Original publication: Bary, A. de (1865). Über Cosmocladium. Flora 48: 321-330, pl. IV.
Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Cosmocladium is Cosmocladium pulchellum Brébisson.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.
General environment
This is a freshwater species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cosmocladium saxonicum De Bary)
Europe: Britain (Brook & Johnson 2002, Whitton et al. 2003), Czech Republic (Stastny 2010), France (Kouwets 1999, Anon. 2012), Germany (Brodie et al. 2009), Ireland (John, Williamson & Guiry 2011), Netherlands (Coesel 1994), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Alvárez Cobelas 1984, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998).
Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Broady et al. 2012), Northern Territory (Day et al. 1995), Tasmania (Day et al. 1995).
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.
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.
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.
Hu, H. & Wei, Y. (2006). The freshwater algae of China. Systematics, taxonomy and ecology. pp. [4 pls of 16 figs], [i-iv], i-xv, 1-1023. China: www.sciencep.com.
Kouwets, F.A.C. (1999). A check-list of desmids (Chlorophyta, Zygnemaphyceae) of France. Patrimoines Natureles 41: 1-148.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Cosmocladium&species=saxonicum
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=Cosmocladium&Species=saxonicum
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 08 July 2010 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 1757 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.)
Gerrath, J.F. (1970). Ultrastructure of the connecting strands in Cosmocladium saxonicum de Bary (Desmidiaceae) and a discussion of the taxonomy of the genus. Phycologia 9: 209-215, 13 figs.
Surek, B. (1983). Mucilage regeneration in the green alga Cosmocladium saxonicum De Bary (Desmidiaceae): a light microscopic and quantitative study. British Phycological Journal 18: 73-81, 3 figs, 1 table.
Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=28721
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 22 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:55964
