Acrochaetium cytophagum (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Acrochaetiales
Family Acrochaetiaceae
Genus Acrochaetium

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Publication details
Acrochaetium cytophagum (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel 1927: 91 (cytophaga)

Original publication: Hamel, G.. (1927). Recherches sur les genres Acrochaetium Naeg. et Rhodochorton Naeg. Published Ph.D. thesis. pp. i-v, 1-117. Saint-Lô: Imprimerie R. Jaqueline, rue des Images, 23.
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Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Acrochaetium is Acrochaetium secundatum (Lyngbye) Nägeli.

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

Basionym
Chantransia cytophaga Rosenvinge

Type information
Type locality: Öresund (Athanasiadis 1996: 16).On porphyra umbilicalis. C?

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia cytophaga Rosenvinge 1909

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia cystophaga Rosenvinge 1909
Chromastrum cystophagum (Rosenvinge) Papenfuss 1945
Kylinia cytophaga (Rosenvinge) Papenfuss 1947
Audouinella cytophaga (Rosenvinge) G.R.South & Tittley 1986

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Acrochaetium cytophagum (Rosenvinge) G.Hamel)
Europe: Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Sweden (Kylin 1944).

(as Kylinia cytophaga (Rosenvinge) Papenfuss)
North America: Nova Scotia (Edelstein & McLachlan 1966).

Taxonomic notes
Placed in Acrochaetium by Nielsen et al. (1995). Garbary (1987: 51) records this species as being a synonym of Audouinella cytophaga.

Key references
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.

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

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=Acrochaetium&Species=cytophagum

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 28 July 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 18 February 2011 by M.D. Guiry

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M.D. 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 25 May 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:76931