Balbiania investiens (Lenormand ex Kützing) Sirodot 1876
Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Balbianiales
Family Balbianiaceae
Genus Balbiania
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Germinating monospores. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 20 Apr 2012. © C.F.Carter (Chris.Carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
Panorama merged image. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 20 Apr 2012. © C.F.Carter (Chris.Carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
Branched filaments. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 20 Apr 2012. © C.F.Carter (Chris.Carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
Red-cyan anaglyph. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 20 Apr 2012. © C.F.Carter (Chris.Carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
Red-cyan anaglyph. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 20 Apr 2012. © C.F.Carter (Chris.Carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
Trichogynes. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 17 Jun 2012. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
Trichogynes with attached spermatangia. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 17 Jun 2012. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
Spermatangia examples.Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 17 Jun 2012. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
Carposporophyte with trichogyne. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 17 Jun 2012. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
Carposporophyte. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.. 17 Jun 2012. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).
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Balbiania investiens (Lenormand ex Kützing) Sirodot Carposporophyte. Bodmin Moor, Cornwall UK. Collected by Paul Gainey.
© C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com)
Publication details
Balbiania investiens (Lenormand ex Kützing) Sirodot 1876: 146, pls 13-15
Published in: Sirodot, S. (1876). Le Balbiania investiens. Étude organogénique et phylsiologique. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, série 6 3: 146-174, pls 13-15.
Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Balbiania.
Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Basionym
Chantransia investiens Lenormand ex Kützing
Type information
Type locality: France: Calvados: Vire (Index Nominum Algarum). Type: Lenormand; (Index Nominum Algarum
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Chantransia investiens Lenormand ex Kützing 1849
Audouinella investiens (Lenormand ex Kützing) Kylin 1956
Rhodochorton investiens (Lenormand ex Kuetzing) Swale & J.H.Belcher 1963
Pseudochantransia investiens (Lenormand ex Kützing) F.D.Ott 2009
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Batrachospermum rubrum Hassall 1845
Batrachospermum moniliforme var. rubrum (Hassal) Kützing 1849
Taxonomic notes
Garbary (1987: 95) cites this species as a synonym of Audouinella investiens.
General environment
This is a freshwater species.
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Key references
Athanasiadis, A. (2016). Phycologia Europaea Rhodophyta Vol. I. pp. [i]-xxxxviii, 1-762. Thessaloniki: Published and distributed by the author.
Eloranta, P., Kwandrans, J. & Kusel-Fetzmann, E. (2011). Rhodophyceae and Phaeophyceae. In: Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa Band 7. Freshwater flora of Central Europe. Volume 7. (Schagerl, M. Eds), pp. [i]-x, [1]-155. Heidelberg: Spectrum Akademischer Verlag.
Evans, J.R., St. Amour, N., Verbruggen, H., Salomaki, E.D. & Vis, M.L. (2019). Chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of Balbiania investiens (Balbianiales, Nemaliophycidae). phycologia 58(3): 310-318.
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.
Ott, F.D. (2009). Handbook of the taxonomic names associated with the non-marine Rhodophycophyta. pp. [i-xiii]xiv-xxiv, [1]-969, [2]. Stuttgart: J. Cramer in der Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung.
Sheath, R.G. & Sherwood, A.R. (2011). Rhodophyta (Red Algae). 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. 159-180. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vis, M.L., Chiasson, W.B. & Sheath, R.G. (2005). Phylogenetic relationship of Batrachospermum species (Batrachospermales, Rhodphyta) from coastal streams in French Guiana. Phycologia 44: 441-446.
Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry
Verified by: 02 March 2020 by Wendy Guiry
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References
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Evans, J.R., St. Amour, N., Verbruggen, H., Salomaki, E.D. & Vis, M.L. (2019). Chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of Balbiania investiens (Balbianiales, Nemaliophycidae). phycologia 58(3): 310-318.
Rieth, A. (1979). A station of the epiphytic freshwater-red alga Balbiania investiens (Lenormand) Sirodot 1876 in Middle-Europe. Archiv für Protistenkunde 121: 401-416.
Sirodot, S. (1876). Le Balbiania investiens. Étude organogénique et phylsiologique. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, série 6 3: 146-174, pls 13-15.
Swale, E.M.F. & Belcher, J.H. (1963). Morphological observations on wild and cultured material of Rhodochorton investiens (Lenormand) nov. comb. (Balbiania investiens (Lenorm.) Sirodot). Annals of Botany 27: 281-290.
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