Tetraselmis marina (Cienkowski) R.E.Norris, Hori & Chihara

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Chlorophyta
Class Chlorodendrophyceae
Order Chlorodendrales
Family Chlorodendraceae
Genus Tetraselmis

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Publication details
Tetraselmis marina (Cienkowski) R.E.Norris, Hori & Chihara 1980: 337

Original publication: Norris, R.E., Hori, T. & Chihara, M. (1980). Revision of the genus Tetraselmis (Class Prasinophyceae). Botanical Magazine, Tokyo 93: 317-339.

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Tetraselmis is Tetraselmis cordiformis (N.Carter) Stein.

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

Basionym
Chlorangium marinum Cienkowski

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), growing in the sea (Stearn 1973).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chlorangium marinum Cienkowski 1881
Prasinocladus marinus (Cienkowski) Waern 1952

General environment
This is a marine species.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Prasinocladus marinus (Cienkowski) Waern)
Europe: Spain (Fernández & Miyares 1989).

North America: New Hampshire (Mathieson & Hehre 1986).

South America: Argentina (Boraso de Zaixso 2004, Boraso & Zaixso 2011).

(as Tetraselmis marina (Cienkowski) R.E.Norris, Hori & Chihara)
Europe: Germany (Scholz & Liebezeit 2012).

North America: California (Miller 2012).

Central America: México (Pacific) (Pedroche et al. 2005).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Broady et al. 2012).

Key references
Gabrielson, P.W., Lindstrom, S.C. & O'Kelly, C.J. (2012). Keys to the seaweeds and seagrasses of Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Phycological Contribution No. 8. pp. [i]-iv, 1-192. Hillsborough, North Carolina: PhycoID.

CCAP Cultures
CCAP Strain Number 163/1A Tetraselmis marina (Cienkowski) R.E.Norris, Hori & Chihara
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SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Tetraselmis&species=marina

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=Tetraselmis&Species=marina

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 22 April 2003 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 25 May 2012 by Michael Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 559 times since it was created.

References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Al-Amoudi, O.A. & Flynn, K.J. (1989). Effect of nitrate-N incorporation on the composition of the intracellular amino acid pool of N-deprived Tetraselmis marina. British Phycological Journal 24: 53-61, 2 figs, 2 tables.

Linking to this page: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=59565

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:42041