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Luticola mutica (Kützing) D.G.Mann

Publication details
Luticola mutica (Kützing) D.G.Mann in Round et al. 1990: 670

Original publication: Round, F.E., Crawford, R.M. & Mann, D.G. (1990). The Diatoms: Biology and morphology of the genera. pp. i-xi, 1-747. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

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

Basionym
Navicula mutica Kützing

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), without a point, awnless, blunt (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Navicula mutica Kützing 1844
Schizonema muticum (Kützing) Kuntze 1898
Placoneis mutica (Kützing) Mereschkowsky 1903
Navicula mutica (Kützing) Frenguelli 1924

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Distribution by country

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Navicula mutica Kützing)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Spain (Álvarez Cobelas & Estévez García 1982).

North America: United States of America (Patrick & Reimer 1966).

South-west Asia: Iran (Jamaloo et al.. 2006).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).

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

(as Luticola mutica (Kützing) D.G.Mann)
Europe: Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Poland (Zelazna-Wieczorek 2011), Romania (Caraus 2012), Spain (Aboal, Puig & Soler 1996, Aboal, Puig & Prefasi 1998, Aboal, Marín & Zafra 2003, Ros, Marín-Murcia & Aboal 2009).

North America: Arkansas (Smith 2010).

South America: Brazil (Eskinazi-Leça et al. 2010).

South-west Asia: Pakistan (Husna et al. 2007).

South-east Asia: Singapore (Pham et al. 2011).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Harper et al. 2012).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Sherwood 2004).

Source of synonymy
Round, F.E., Crawford, R.M. & Mann, D.G. (1990). The Diatoms: Biology and morphology of the genera. pp. i-xi, 1-747. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Key references
Aboal, M., Alvarez Cobelas, M., Cambra, J. & Ector, L. (2003). Floristic list of non-marine diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) of Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands and Canary Islands. Updated taxonomy and bibliography. Diat. Monogr. 4: 1-639.

Husna, R. Zarina, A., Masud-ul-Hasan & Shameel, M. (2007). Taxonomic study of some diatoms from Lahore, Pakistan. International Journal of Phycology and Phycochemistry, Vol. 3 (1) pp. 55-64.

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

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=Luticola&Species=mutica

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 26 December 2011 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 947 times since it was created.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in 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: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:84832

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