Cryptomonas erosa Ehrenberg
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Cryptophyta
Class Cryptophyceae
Order Cryptomonadales
Family Cryptomonadaceae
Genus Cryptomonas
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Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; Pond, Lugols, 1000x, Phase Contrast. 13 Sep 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun.
Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; Wallin pond, Lugol's, 1000x, DIC. 20 Jan 2010. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).
Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; pond, Lugol's 1000x, DIC. 16 Aug 2009. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).
Publication details
Cryptomonas erosa Ehrenberg 1832: 56
Original publication: Ehrenberg, C.G. (1832). Über die Entwickelung und Lebensdauer der Infusionsthiere; nebst
ferneren Beiträgen zu einer Vergleichung ihrer organischen Systeme. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Physikalische Klasse 1831: 1-154, pls I-IV.
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Type species
A type species for this genus does not appear to have been designated.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cryptoglena erosa (Ehrenberg) T.G.Popova
General environment
This is a freshwater species.
Description
Emended Hoef-Emden (2007: 414, figs 18, 19).
Distribution by country
Type information
Epitype locality: Biebergemünd-Bieber, Spessart, Germany (Hoef-Emden 2007: 425). Epitype: Permanent slide of strain CCAC 0018 (epitype) (Strain isolated by A. Schilke); CCAC CRYP.E.008 (Hoef-Emden 2007: 414). Notes: Hoef-Emden (2007: 414) gives the following data: Ehrenberg [1832, p. 56 (descr.); Ehrenberg, Ehrenberg Collection at the Humboldt Universitat (BHUPM), Berlin, Germany [1835, drawing sheet no. 362 (ic. prima)], original drawings).
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cryptomonas erosa Ehrenberg)
Europe: Austria (Hoef-Emden 2007), Britain (Novarino 2002, Wolowski 2002, Whitton et al. 2003), Finland (Hoef-Emden 2007), Germany (Hoef-Emden 2007), Poland (Kokocinski et al. 2011), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas 1982).
North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010), Michigan (Millie et al. 2011), Ontario (Xenopoulos & Frost, 2003, Graham et al. 2007).
South America: Brazil (Menezes 2010).
South-west Asia: Iran (Afsharzadeh et al. 2003), Israel (Krakhmalny et al. 2000).
Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).
South-east Asia: Singapore (Pham et al. 2011).
Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995), Queensland (Day et al. 1995), Tasmania (Day et al. 1995).
Source of synonymy
Hoef-Emden, K. (2007). Revision of the genus Cryptomonas (Cryptophyceae) II: incongruences between the classical morphospecies concept and molecular phylogeny in smaller pyrenoid-less cells. Phycologia 46(4): 402-428, 33 figs, 3 tables, 2 appendix.
Key references
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.
Dillard, G.E. (2007). Freshwater algae of the southeastern United States Part 8. Chrysophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Cryptophyceae and Dinophyceae. Bibliotheca Phycologica 112: [i-vi], 1-127, 22 pls.
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.
Kugrens, P. & Clay, B.L. (2002). Cryptomonads. In: Freshwater Algae of North America. ( Eds), pp. 715-755. San Diego: Academic Press.
Novarino, G. (2002). Phylum Cryptophyta (Cryptomonads). 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. 180-185. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Cryptomonas&species=erosa
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=Cryptomonas&Species=erosa
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 20 October 2011 by M.D. Guiry
Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2539 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.)
Morgan, K.C. & Kalff, J. (1979). Effect of light and temperature interactions on growth of Cryptomonas erosa (Cryptophyceae). Journal of Phycology 15: 127-134.
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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 24 May 2013.
Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:54795
