Cystopleura argus var. alpestris (W.Smith) De Toni 1892

Publication Details
Cystopleura argus var. alpestris (W.Smith) De Toni 1892: 783

Published in: De Toni, G.B. (1892). Sylloge algarum omnium hucusque cognitarum. Vol. II. Sylloge Bacillariearum. Sectio II. Pseudoraphideae. pp. [i-v], 491-817. Padova [Padua]: Sumptibus auctoris.

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Publication date: 12 February 1892

Type Species
A type species for this genus does not appear to have been designated.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Epithemia argus var. alpestris (W.Smith) Grunow.

Basionym
Epithemia alpestris W.Smith

Origin of Species Name
Noun (Latinised), Latinised form of the Greek, argos, white; the hundred-eyed keeper of Io, killed by Mercury at the command of Jupiter (Smith & Lockwood 1933).

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 24 May 2013 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda.

Last updated: 24 May 2013

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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 May 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 28 March 2024

 
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