Actinotaenium cucurbita (Brébisson ex Ralfs) Teiling
Publication details
Actinotaenium cucurbita (Brébisson ex Ralfs) Teiling 1954: 406
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 cucurbita Brébisson ex Ralfs
Type information
Type locality: Britain (several records); Falaise (Brébisson); Germany (Kuetzing) (Silva 1996-to date).
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cosmarium cucurbita Brébisson ex Ralfs 1848
Dysphinctium cucurbita (Brebisson ex Ralfs) Grunow 1859
Calocylindrus cucurbita Kirchner 1878
Cosmarium curcurbita f. maior West 1892
Cosmarium cucurbita var. attenuatum G.S.West 1904
Actinotaenium cucurbita f. latius (West & West) Teiling 1954
Actinotaenium cucurbita var. attenuatum (G.S.West) Teiling 1954
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Dysphinctium palangula var. debaryi (Rabenhorst) Hansgirg
Penium palangula var. debaryi Rabenhorst 1868
Cosmarium cucurbita f. maius West 1892
Cosmarium cucurbita f. latius West 1892
General environment
This is a freshwater species.
Distribution by country
Detailed distribution with sources
(as Cosmarium cucurbita Brébisson ex Ralfs)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012).
South America: Brazil (Araújo et al. 2010).
South-west Asia: Pakistan (Masud-ul-Hasan et al. 2010 
).
Australia and New Zealand: New South Wales (Day et al. 1995).
(as Cosmarium cucurbita var. attenuatum G.S.West)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2002).
(as Actinotaenium cucurbita (Brébisson ex Ralfs) Teiling)
Europe: Andorra (Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Balearic Islands (Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Britain (Ettl & Gärtner 1995, Brook & Johnson 2002, Whitton et al. 2003), Czech Republic and/or Slovakia (Ettl & Gärtner 1995), France (Kouwets 1999, Anon. 2012), Ireland (John, Williamson & Guiry 2011), Netherlands (Coesel 1985), Portugal (Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Slovenia (Vrhovsek et al. 2006), Spain (Aboal & Llimona 1984b, Alvárez Cobelas 1984, Aboal 1989, Aboal 1991, Cambra Sánchez, Álvarez Cobelas & Aboal Sanjurjo 1998), Turkey (Europe) (Sahín 2005).
Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Ettl & Gärtner 1995).
Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Broady et al. 2012), Northern Territory (Day et al. 1995), Victoria (Day et al. 1995).
(as Actinotaenium cucurbita var. attenuatum (G.S.West) Teiling)
Arctic: Ellesmere Island (Croasdale 1973).
Europe: Austria (Lenzenweger 1996).
Key references
Brook, A.J. & Johnson, L.R. (2002). Order Zygnematales. 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. 479-593. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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.
Ettl, H. & Gärtner, G. (1995). Syllabus der Boden-, Luft- und Flechtenalgen. pp. i-vii, 1-721. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer.
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=cucurbita
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=cucurbita
Created: 04 April 2003 by Andy Taylor
Verified by: 15 November 2009 by M.D. Guiry
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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:42307
