Stephanosira hamadryas Ehrenberg 1848
Publication Details
Stephanosira hamadryas Ehrenberg 1848: 219, no fig.
Published in: Ehrenberg, C.G. (1848). Über eigenthümliche auf den Bäumen des Urwaldes in Süd-Amerika zahlreich lebende mikroskopische oft kieselschalige Organismen. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1848: 213-220.
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Stephanosira is Stephanosira europaea Ehrenberg.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Orthoseira hamadryas (Ehrenberg) Houck, Klee & H.Tanaka.
Type Information
Type locality: Venezuela, tropical rainforest at La Guayra, on roots of Cheilanthes glabra [a fern]; (Houk & al. 2017: 33) Notes: A lectotype does not seem to have been selected (if necessary) but original material is at stripe 190206, Case 19, Box 2B, Ehrenberg Coll. at B.
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 26 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 24 April 2023
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 April 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024