Closterium kuetzingii Brébisson 1856
Current name:
Closterium kuetzingii Brébisson
Location: Wetland at the Pillersee (Tyrol, Austria) - 01 June 2024. © Wolfgang Bettighofer, www.protisten.de, image under Creative Commons License V 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA)
Publication Details
Closterium kuetzingii Brébisson 1856: 156, 166, pl. [II] 2: fig. 40
Published in: Brébisson, [L.] A. de (1856). Liste des Desmidiées, observées en Basse-Normandie. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg 4: 113-166, pls I, II.
Request PDFType Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Closterium is Closterium lunula Ehrenberg & Hemprich ex Ralfs.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Falaise [Lower Normandy, France]; (Brébisson 1856: 113-114, 156)not provided; n.d.;
Origin of Species Name
(Latinised), Named for Friedrich Traugott Kützing (1807-1893), German Phycologist
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 28 May 2025
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Roberta Cowan in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 28 May 2025. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 13 June 2025
