Scenedesmus obtusus Meyen 1829

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Viridiplantae
Infrakingdom Chlorophyta infrakingdom
Phylum Chlorophyta
Subphylum Chlorophytina
Class Chlorophyceae
Order Sphaeropleales
Family Scenedesmaceae
Subfamily Scenedesmoideae
Genus Scenedesmus

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Publication details
Scenedesmus obtusus Meyen 1829: 775, pl. XLIII [43]: figs 30, 31

Published in: Meyen, F.J.F. (1829). Beobachtungen über einige niedere Algenformen. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae 14: 768-778, pl. XLIII [43].
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Type species
This is the type species (lectotype) of the genus Scenedesmus.

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

Type information
Type locality: near Potsdam, Havel (Index Nominum Algarum). Type: on Alcyonella stagnorum. (Index Nominum Algarum

Origin of species name
Adjective (Latin), obtuse, blunt (Stearn 1973).

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Scenedesmus ovalternus Brébisson 1855
Scenedesmus alternans Reinsch 1866
Scenedesmus bijugus var. alternans (Reinsch) Borge 1906
Scenedesmus graevenitzii C.Bernard 1908
Scenedesmus ovalternus Chodat 1926
Scenedesmus obtusus var. alternans (Reinsch) Compère 1976

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

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Key references
Hentschke, G.S. & Torgan, L.C. (2010). Desmodesmus e Scenedesmus (Scenedesmaceae, Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyceae) em ambientes aquáticos na Planície Costeira do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Rodriguésia 61: 585-601.

Komárek, J. & Fott, B. (1983). Chlorophyceae (Grünalgen) Ordnung: Chlorococcales. Das Phytoplankton des Süsswassers. In: Das Phytoplankton des Süsswassers (Die Binnengewässer) XVI. (Huber-Pestalozzi, G. Eds), pp. [1]-x, [1]-1044. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlangbuchhandlung (Nägele u. Obermiller).

Ramos, G.J.P., Bicudo, C.E. de M. & Moura, C.W. do N.M. (2015). Scenedesmaceae (Chlorophyta, Chlorophyceae) de duas áreas do Pantanal dos Marimbus (Baiano e Remanso), Chapada Diamantina, Estado da Bahia, Brasil. Hoehnea 42(3): 549-566.

Tsarenko, P.M. & John, D.M. (2011). Order Sphaeropleales sensu lato [Phylum Chlorophyta]. In: The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. Second edition. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 419-475. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Sphaeropleales. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 280-355. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G..

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