Eutreptia viridis Perty

Publication details
Eutreptia viridis Perty 1852

Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Eutreptia.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), green (Stearn 1973).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Eutreptia viridis Perty)
Europe: Britain (Wolowski 2002), Romania (Caraus 2002).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).

Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995).

Source of synonymy
Starmach, K. (1983). Euglenophyta - Eugleniny. Vol. 3 pp. 594. Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.

Key references
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.

Throndsen, J. (1996). The planktonic marine flagellates. In: Identifying marine phytoplankton. (Tomas, C.R. Eds), pp. 591-730. San Diego: Academic Press.

Triemer, R.E., Linton, E., Shin, W., Nudelman, A., Monfils, A., Bennett, M. & Brosnan, S. (2006). Phylogeny of the Euglenales based upon combined SSU and rDNA sequence comparisons and description of Discoplastis gen. nov. (Euglenophyta). Journal of Phycology 42: 731-740.

CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 1226/1A Eutreptia viridis Perty
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NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 12 February 2007 by M.D. Guiry

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