Actinotaenium cruciferum (De Bary) Teiling

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Charophyta
Class Conjugatophyceae
Order Desmidiales
Family Desmidiaceae
Genus Actinotaenium

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Publication details
Actinotaenium cruciferum (De Bary) Teiling 1954: 396, figs 16, 17

Original publication: Teiling, E. (1954). Actinotaenium, genus Desmidiacearum resuscitatum. Botanisk Notiser 4: 376-426.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Actinotaenium is Dysphinctium regelianum Nägeli.

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

Basionym
Cosmarium cruciferum De Bary

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cosmarium cruciferum De Bary 1858
Penium cruciferum (De Bary) Wittrock 1882

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Dysphinctium cruciferum (Ralfs) Grunnow
Dysphinctium cruciferum (De Bary) Hansgirg 1957

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Actinotaenium cruciferum (De Bary) Teiling)
Europe: Austria (Lenzenweger 1996), Britain (Whitton et al. 2003), Czech Republic (Stastny 2010), Ireland (John, Williamson & Guiry 2011), Italy (Abdelahad et al. 2003), Netherlands (Coesel 1985), Portugal (Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Spain (Alvárez Cobelas 1984, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Turkey (Europe) (Sahín 2005).

North America: North Carolina (Fucikova et al. 2008).

Asia: China (Hu & Wei 2006).

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

Key references
Coesel, P.F.M. & Meesters, K.[J.] (2007). Desmids of the Lowlands Mesotaeniaceae and Desmidaceae of the European Lowlands. pp. [1]-351, 20 text-figs, 123 pls. Zeist: KNNV Publishing.

Kouwets, F.A.C. (1999). A check-list of desmids (Chlorophyta, Zygnemaphyceae) of France. Patrimoines Natureles 41: 1-148.

Martello, G.V. (2007). Le Desmidiée (Chlorophyta, Zygnematophyceae) di alcune zone umide lentiche della Val di Rava (Gruppo montuoso dei Lagorai) (TN). The Desmids (Chlorophyta, Zygematophyceae) of some lentic freshwater habitats of the Rava Valley (Montainous group of the Lagorai) (TM). Natura Vicentina 11: 77-115.

Ruzicka, J. (1981). Die Desmidiaceen Mitteleuropas. Vol. 1(2) pp. [i]-ix, 293-736, pls 45-117. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

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

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=Actinotaenium&Species=cruciferum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 15 November 2009 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 361 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=34868

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 21 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:53546