Euglena cantabrica Pringsheim

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Protozoa
Phylum Euglenophyta
Class Euglenophyceae
Order Euglenales
Family Euglenaceae (1)
Genus Euglena

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Publication details
Euglena cantabrica Pringsheim 1956: 110-111, fig. 32 (A-H)

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Euglena is Euglena viridis (O.F.Müller) Ehrenberg.

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

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), of Cantabrica, northern Spain (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Euglena viridis var. olivacea Klebs 1883
Euglena dicentra Skuja 1948
Euglena cuneata E.G.Pringsheim 1956
Euglena viridis f. olivacea (Klebs) Popowa 1966
Euglena viridis var. maxima M.T.Philipose 1982

Description
Emend. Zakrys & Kosmala (Kosmala et al. 2009: 474).

Type information
Type locality: Near Madingley (Cambridge) (Silva 1996-to date). Lectotype: fig. 32A in Pringsheim, d, c: Fig. 11 (epitype) (Kosmala et al. 2009: 474). Notes: Lectotype designated in Kosmala et al. (2009: 475). Epitype: Permanently preserved material from strain SAG 1224-25, deposited at the herbarium of the Biology Faculty at Warsaw University.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Euglena dicentra Skuja)
South-west Asia: Israel (Stupina et al. 2000).

(as Euglena cuneata E.G.Pringsheim)
Europe: Britain (Wolowski 2002, Whitton et al. 2003), Romania (Caraus 2002).

(as Euglena cantabrica Pringsheim)
Europe: Romania (Caraus 2012).

South America: Brazil (Alves-da-Silva & Menezes 2010).

Source of synonymy
Kosmala, S., Karnkowska-Ishikawa, A., Milanowski, R., Kwiatowski, J. & Zakrys, B. (2009). Phylogeny and systematics of Euglena (Euglenaceae) species with axial, stellate chloroplasts based on morphological and molecular data - new taxa, emended diagnoses, and epitypifications. Journal of Phycology 45(2): 464-481, 2 figs, 4 tables.

Key references
Milanowski, R., Kosmala, S., Zakrys, B. & Kwiatowski, J. (2006). Phylogeny of photosynthetic euglenophytes based on combined chloroplast and cytoplasmic SSU rDNA sequence analysis. Journal of Phycology 42: 721-730.

Shin, W. & Triemer, R.E. (2004). Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Euglena (Euglenophyceae) with particular reference to the type species . Journal of Phycology 40: 759-771.

UTEX Cultures
UTEX Culture LB 1320 Euglena cantabrica
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CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 1224/33 Euglena cantabrica Pringsheim
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Euglena&species=cantabrica

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=Euglena&Species=cantabrica

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 22 April 2003 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 01 September 2011 by Wendy Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 422 times since it was created.

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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 18 June 2013.

Algaebase taxon LSID: urn:lsid:algaebase.org:taxname:79490