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Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux 1809

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Subkingdom Biliphyta
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Nemaliophycidae
Order Batrachospermales
Family Lemaneaceae
Genus Chantransia

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On bryophyte stem. In a waterfall at Gleniffer Braes Country Park, Renfrewshire, Scotland. 27 Apr 2015. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com).

Red-cyan anaglyph. On bryophyte stem. In a waterfall at Gleniffer Braes Country Park, Renfrewshire, Scotland. 27 Apr 2015. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com).

Branch at low magnification. River Ehen, Cumbria, UK. Collected by Martyn Kelly, February 2013. 15 Feb 2013. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Red/Cyan anaglyph of densly packed filaments. River Ehen, Cumbria, UK. Collected by Martyn Kelly,. 15 Feb 2013. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Cluster of monospores. River Ehen, Cumbria, UK. Collected by Martyn Kelly. 15 Feb 2013. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Details of cells and empty sporangia. River Ehen, Cumbria, UK. Collected by Martyn Kelly, February 2013. 15 Feb 2013. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

prox. Freshwater aquarium, Cambridge, UK. Collected by Hilary Belcher and Erica Swale.. 12 Jul 2011. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Radiathamnion speleotis Gordon-Mills & Kraft

Audouinella hermannii (Roth) Duby On bryophyte stem. In a waterfall at Gleniffer Braes Country Park, Renfrewshire, Scotland
© C.F.Carter (chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com)

Publication details
Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux 1809: 310

Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chantransia is Chantransia nigricans De Candolle.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Audouinella hermannii (Roth) Duby

Basionym
Conferva hermannii Roth

Type information
Type locality: "...legit ad rotam molendinariam in Alsatia." [Alsace, France] (Roth 1797: 180). Type: Hermann; (Index Nominum Algarum Notes: Necchi & Zucchi (1995) give the following data: Germany, Bremen near to Molendinas, L. Treviranus, B 28258 and they note that a neotype was designated by Necchi et al. (1993).

Synonym(s)
No synonyms are currently included in AlgaeBase.

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Detailed distribution with sources (Click to Load)

Source of current name
Garbary, D.J. (1987). The Acrochaetiaceae (Rhodophyta): an annotated bibliography. Bibliotheca Phycologica 77: 1-267, 2 tables.

Key references
Harper, J.T. & Saunders, G.W. (2002). A re-classification of the Acrochaetiales based on molecular and morphological data, and establishment of the Colaconematales, ord. nov.. British Phycological Journal 37: 463-475.

Created: 20 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 18 August 2009 by Wendy Guiry

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References
(Please note: only references with the binomials in the title are included. The information is from the Literature database.)

Starmach, K. (1985). Chantransia hermannii (Roth) Desvaux and the systematic position of the genera Chantransia, Pseudochantransia and Audouinella. Acta Soc. Bot. Pol. 54: 273-284.

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Citing AlgaeBase
Cite this record as:
Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 27 February 2021.

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