Mesostigma viride Lauterborn

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Charophyta
Class Mesostigmatophyceae
Order Mesostigmatales
Family Mesostigmataceae
Genus Mesostigma

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Publication details
Mesostigma viride Lauterborn 1894

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

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.

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Mesostigma viride Lauterborn)
Europe: Britain (Moestrup 2002, Whitton et al. 2003), Portugal (Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Sweden (Ardré 1970).

Source of synonymy
Moestrup, Ø. (2002). Phylum Prasinophyta. 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. 281-286. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Key references
Marin, B. & Melkonian, M. (1999). Mesostigmatophyceae, a new class of streptophyte green algae revealed by SSU rRNA sequence comparisons. Protist 150: 399-417, 9 figs, 2 tables.

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

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=Mesostigma&Species=viride

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 22 September 2007 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2117 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.)

Fawley, M.W. & Lee, C.M. (1990). Pigment composition of the scaly green flagellate Mesostigma viride (Micromonadophyceae) is similar to that of the siphonous green alga Bryopsis plumosa (Ulvophyceae). Journal of Phycology 26: 666-670.
Manton, I. & Ettl, H. (1965). Observations on the fine structure of Mesostigma viride Lauterborn. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 59: 175-184.
Melkonian, M. (1982). Virus-like particles in the scaly green flagellate Mesostigma viride. British Phycological Journal 17: 63-68, 3 figs.
Yoshii, Y., Takaichi, S., Maoka, T. & Inouye, I. (2003). Photosynthetic pigment composition in the primitive green alga Mesostigma viride (Prasinophyceae): phylogenetic and evolutionary implications. Journal of Phycology 39: 570-576.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=34513

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 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:113395