Gomphosphaeria lacustris Chodat

Classification:
Empire Prokaryota
Kingdom Bacteria
Subkingdom Negibacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria
Class Cyanophyceae
Subclass Oscillatoriophycideae
Order Chroococcales
Family Gomphosphaeriaceae
Genus Gomphosphaeria

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Publication details
Gomphosphaeria lacustris Chodat 1898

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gomphosphaeria is Gomphosphaeria aponina Kützing.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Snowella lacustris (Chodat) Komárek & Hindák

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

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

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Gomphosphaeria lacustris Chodat)
Arctic: Ellesmere Island (Croasdale 1973).

Europe: Denmark (Nielsen 2002), Romania (Caraus 2002), Spain (Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Aboal 1988, Alvarez-Cobelas & Gallardo 1988, Aboal 1989), Sweden (Skuja 1948).

Australia and New Zealand: Northern Territory (Day et al. 1995), Queensland (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).

Source of synonymy
Komárek, J. & Anagnostidis, K. (1999). Cyanoprokaryota. 1. Chroococcales. In: Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. (Ettl, H., Gärtner, G., Heynig, H. & Mollenhauer, D. Eds) Vol. 19, pp. 1-548. Heidelberg; Berlin: Spektrum, Akad. Verl..

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Gomphosphaeria&species=lacustris

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=Gomphosphaeria&Species=lacustris

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 23 September 2004 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 998 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=32542

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 19 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: No taxonomy record found for this level.