Vaucheria jonesii Prescott 1938
Publication Details
Vaucheria jonesii Prescott 1938: 4, pl. I [1]: figs 3-8 (as 'Jonesii')
Published in: Prescott, G.W. (1938). A new species and a new variety of the algal genus Vaucheria De Candolle with notes on the genus. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 57(1): 1-10.
Publication date: 1938
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Vaucheria is Vaucheria disperma A.P.de Candolle.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Type locality: State University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa, USA; (Prescott 1938: 4) Holotype: Prescott herbarium; I-50 (Prescott 1938) Notes: "An interesting species of Vaucheria was first brought to the writer's attention by Dr. E. N. Jones, who collected it during the month of January from beneath several inches of ice over an abandoned rock quarry pond on the State University of Iowa campus.... Jones. Herbarium of G. W. Prescott, Ia-50"
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 13 March 2006 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 07 August 2019
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 07 August 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 24 April 2024
