Gloeocapsa turgida (Kützing) Hollerbach 1936

Publication Details
Gloeocapsa turgida (Kützing) Hollerbach 1936: 14, fig. 3a, 8b-c

Published in: Elenkin, A.A. (1936). Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Obshchaya chast' [Blue-green algae of the USSR. Monograph of freshwater and terrestrial Syanofiseae found within the USSR. A common part]. pp. [1]-679, 91 figs. Moscow & Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR. [in Russian]

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Publication date: May 1936

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gloeocapsa is Gloeocapsa atrata Kützing.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing) Nägeli.

Basionym
Protococcus turgidus Kützing

Type Information
Type locality: ‘"Zwischen Oscillarieen und Lyngbyeen’" [Freidburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany fide Drouet & Daily, 1956: 70]); (Silva & al. 1996: 13) Holotype: L; (Index Nominum Algarum)

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 02 August 2002 by Elizabeth Moran.

Last updated: 29 March 2022

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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 29 March 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2024

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