Achnanthes levanderi var. helvetica Hustedt 1933

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Chromista
Phylum Bacillariophyta
Subphylum Bacillariophytina
Class Bacillariophyceae
Subclass Bacillariophycidae
Order Mastogloiales
Family Achnanthaceae
Genus Achnanthes

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Publication details
Achnanthes levanderi var. helvetica Hustedt 1933: 404, fig. 856 B

Published in: Hustedt, F. (1933). Die Kieselalgen Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz unter Berücksichtigung der übrigen Länder Europas sowie der angrenzenden Meeresgebiete. Bd. VII: Teil 2: Liefrung 3. In: Kryptogamen Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h. Leipzig 7(Teil 2, Lief. 3). (Rabenhorst, L. Eds), pp. 321-432. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h.

Publication date: Sep 1933

Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Achnanthes is Achnanthes adnata Bory.

Status of name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Psammothidium levanderi (Hustedt) Bukhtiyarova & Round

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

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Type information
Type locality: Switzerland: Totalpsee near Davos (Index Nominum Algarum). Type: coll. Hustedt N4/97 fide Simonsen (Atlas Cat. Diat. Types Fr Hustedt: 135. 1987): BRM (Index Nominum Algarum

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Achnanthes levanderi var. helvetica Hustedt)
Atlantic Islands: Iceland (Foged 1974).

North America: Laurentian Great Lakes (Stoermer, Kreis & Andresen 1999), United States of America (Kociolek 2005).

Source of current name
Blanco, S., Pla-Rabes, S., Wetzel, C.E. & Granados, I. (2017). A new Psammothidium species (Bacillariophyta, Achnanthidiaceae) from Cimera Lake (Gredos mountain range), Central Spain. Cryptogamie Algologie 38(1): 17-29.

Key references
Krammer, K. & Lange-Bertalot (2004). Süßwasserflora von Mitteleuropa. Band 2. Bacillariophyceae. Teil 4: Acnanthaceae. Kritische Ergänzungen zu Achnanthes s.l., Navicula s. str., Gomphonema. pp. [i-vi], 1-468, 93 pls. Heidelberg & Berlin: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag. [in On shelf with series]

Proschkina-Lavrenko, A.I. [Ed.] (1950). Diatomovyi Analiz, Kniga 3. Opredelitel' iskopaemykh i sovremennykh diatomik vodoroslei Poriadok Pennales. Vol. 3 (1). pp. [1]-398, 117 pls. Kiev: Botanicheskii Institut im V.L. Komarova Akademii Nauk S.S.S.R. Gosudarstvennoe Izdatelystvo Geologicheskoi Literatury. [in Russian]

Created: 23 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 27 October 2017 by M.D. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2021. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 20 January 2021.