Batrachospermum arcuatum Kylin

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Batrachospermales
Family Batrachospermaceae
Genus Batrachospermum

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Publication details
Batrachospermum arcuatum Kylin 1912: 22, figs 7 a-e

Original publication: Kylin, H. (1912). Studien über die Schwedischen Arten der Gattungen Batrachospermum Roth und Sirodotia nov. gen. Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Ups. Ser. IV, 3: 1-40.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Batrachospermum is Batrachospermum gelatinosum (Linnaeus) De Candolle.

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

Infrageneric classification
Subgenus Batrachospermum Section Batrachospermum [Helminthoidea? - see Entwisle et al., 2009]

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

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Description
em. M.L. Vis et al. (Entwisle et al., 2009)

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Batrachospermum arcuatum Kylin)
Europe: Belgium (Eloranta, Kwandrans & Kusel-Fetzmann 2011), Britain (Whitton et al. 2003, Eloranta, Kwandrans & Kusel-Fetzmann 2011), Bulgaria (Stewart & Vis 2007, Vis et al. 2010), Crimea (Eloranta, Kwandrans & Kusel-Fetzmann 2011), Finland (Eloranta, Kwandrans & Kusel-Fetzmann 2011), Ireland (Eloranta, Kwandrans & Kusel-Fetzmann 2011), Lithuania (Eloranta, Kwandrans & Kusel-Fetzmann 2011), Poland (Eloranta, Kwandrans & Kusel-Fetzmann 2011), Portugal (Eloranta, Kwandrans & Kusel-Fetzmann 2011), Slovenia (Vrhovsek et al. 2006), Spain (Marco & Aboal 2008), Sweden (Eloranta, Kwandrans & Kusel-Fetzmann 2011).

North America: Washington (Stewart & Vis 2007, Vis et al. 2010).

Asia: China (Vis et al. 2010), Taiwan (Stewart & Vis 2007, Vis et al. 2010).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Stewart & Vis 2007, Vis et al. 2010 , Nelson 2012).

Pacific Islands: Hawaiian Islands (Vis et al. 2010).

Key references
Eloranta, P., Kwandrans, J. & Kusel-Fetzmann, E. (2011). Rhodophyceae and Phaeophyceae. In: Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa Band 7. Freshwater flora of Central Europe. Volume 7. (Schagerl, M. Eds), pp. [i]-x, [1]-155. Heidelberg: Spectrum Akademischer Verlag.

Entwisle, T.J., Vis, M.L., Chiasson, W.B., Necchi Jr., O. & Sherwood, A.R. (2009). Systematics of the Batrachospermales (Rhodophyta) - a synthesis. Journal of Phycology 45(3): 704-715, 2 figs, 1 table.

Kumano, S. (2002). Freshwater Red Algae of the World. pp. [i-ii], i-xiv, 1-375 [p. 375 is an Addendum], pls 1-199. Bristol: Biopress Limited.

Ott, F.D. (2009). Handbook of the taxonomic names associated with the non-marine Rhodophycophyta. pp. [i-xiii]xiv-xxiv, [1]-969, [2]. Stuttgart: J. Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Vis, M.L., Feng, J., Chiasson, W.B., Xie, S.-L., Stancheva, R., Entwisle, T.J., Chou, J.-Y. & Wang, W.-L. (2010). Investigation of the molecular and morphological variability in Batrachospermum arcuatum (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) from geographically distant locations. Phycologia 49(6): 545-553.

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

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=Batrachospermum&Species=arcuatum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 21 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 28 August 2012 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 685 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.)

Marco, S. & Aboal, M. (2008). Batrachospermum arcuatum (Batrachospermaceae, Floridophyceae) en el Parque Natural del Marjal de Pego-Oliva. Nueva cita para la flora algal de las aguas continentales españolas. ALGAS. Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Ficología 39: 35 - 37.
Vis, M.L., Feng, J., Chiasson, W.B., Xie, S.-L., Stancheva, R., Entwisle, T.J., Chou, J.-Y. & Wang, W.-L. (2010). Investigation of the molecular and morphological variability in Batrachospermum arcuatum (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) from geographically distant locations. Phycologia 49(6): 545-553.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Wendy Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:52198