Euglena limnophila Lemmermann

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Protozoa
Phylum Euglenophyta
Class Euglenophyceae
Order Euglenales
Family Euglenaceae (1)
Genus Euglena

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Publication details
Euglena limnophila Lemmermann 1898

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Euglena is Euglena viridis (O.F.Müller) Ehrenberg.

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.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Euglena limnophila Lemmermann)
Europe: Britain (Wolowski 2002, Whitton et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Alvárez Cobelas 1984).

North America: Mexico (Valadez, Rosiles-Gonzalez & Cremona 2010).

South America: Brazil (Alves-da-Silva & Menezes 2010).

South-west Asia: Israel (Hisoriev et al. 1999).

Key references
Milanowski, R., Kosmala, S., Zakrys, B. & Kwiatowski, J. (2006). Phylogeny of photosynthetic euglenophytes based on combined chloroplast and cytoplasmic SSU rDNA sequence analysis. Journal of Phycology 42: 721-730.

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.

Valadez, F., Rosiles-Gonzalez, G. & Cremona, J. (2010). Euglenophytes from Lake Chignahuapan, Mexico. Cryptogamie Algologie 31(3): 305-319.

Wolowski, K, & Hindák, F. (2005). Atlas of Euglenophytes. pp. 136, 417 figs. Cracow: VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

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

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=Euglena&Species=limnophila

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 22 December 2010 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 699 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=32672

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Wendy Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 17 March 2014.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:85346