Tolypothrix distorta f. penicillata (C.Agardh) Kossinskaja 1938
Current name:
Tolypothrix penicillata Thuret ex Bornet & Flahault
Subtended multiple heterocysts. Abington Meadow, Northampton, UK. - 03 July 2009. C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com)
Publication Details
Tolypothrix distorta f. penicillata (C.Agardh) Kossinskaja 1938: 958, fig. 282
Published in: Elenkin, A.A. (1938). Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Spetsial'naya (sistematicheskaya) chast', vyp. I. I. Chroococcaceae Geitl.; II. Chamaesiphoneae Geitl.; III. Hormogoneae (Geitl.) Elenk.: poryadok Stigonematales Geitl.; poryadok Mastigocladales Elenk.; poryadok Diplonematales Elenk.; poryadok Nostocales (Geitl.) Elenk.: sem. Nostocaceae Elenk., sem. Anabaenaceae Elenk., Aphanizomenonaceae Elenk., sem. Nodulariaceae Elenk., sem. Scytonemataceae (Kütz.) Elenk. pp. 984, 290 figures. Moscow & Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR. [in Russian and Latin]
Publication date: 21 February 1938
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Tolypothrix is Tolypothrix distorta Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Tolypothrix penicillata Thuret ex Bornet & Flahault.
Basionym
Scytonema penicillatum C. Agardh
Type Information
Type locality: ad lapides et Fontinalem in aqua citissime currente fluvii prope Nattraby Blekingiae; (Index Nominum Algarum)
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 17 June 2011 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 03 April 2022
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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 03 April 2022. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 April 2024