Batrachospermum guyanense (Montagne) Kumano

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 guyanense (Montagne) Kumano 1990: 281-292, figs 6-12, nom. illeg.

Original publication: Kumano, S. (1990). Carpogonia and carposporophytes of Montagne's taxa of Batrachospermum (Rhodophyta) from French Guiana. Cryptogamie, Algologie 11(4): 281-292.

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

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a taxonomic synonym of Kumanoa montagnei Entwisle, M.L.Vis, W.B.Chiasson, Necchi & A.R.Sherwood

Basionym
Batrachospermum vagum var. guyanense Montagne

Type information
Type locality: French Guiana: Cayenne (Silva 1996-to date). Holotype: Leprieur 1109 (1103 in error); PC (Silva 1996-to date

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Batrachospermum vagum var. guayanense Montagne 1850

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Batrachospermum guyanense (Montagne) Kumano)
South America: French Guiana (Vis et al 2005, Chiasson et al 2005).

Nomenclatural notes
Illegitimate: later homonym of Batrachospermum guianense (Montagne) Kützing; "i" and "y" are interchangeable in latin, and the same country is in question. - (24 May 2006) - Wendy Guiry

Source of synonymy
Necchi Júnior, O. & Vis, M.L. (2012). Monograph of the genus Kumanoa (Rhodophyta, Batrachospermales). Bibliotheca Phycologica 116: [1]-79, pls 1-26.

Key references
Chiasson, W.B., Sabo, N.J. & Vis, M.L. (2005). Affinities of freshwater putative chantransia stages (Rhodophyta) from molecular and morphological data. Phycologia 44: 163-168.

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.

Vis, M.L., Chiasson, W.B. & Sheath, R.G. (2005). Phylogenetic relationship of Batrachospermum species (Batrachospermales, Rhodphyta) from coastal streams in French Guiana. Phycologia 44: 441-446.

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

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=guyanense

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 26 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 13 June 2012 by Michael Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 313 times since it was created.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=40800

Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Michael 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 18 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:109487