Gloeocapsa minor (Kützing) Hollerbach 1937

Publication Details
Gloeocapsa minor (Kützing) Hollerbach 1937: 317

Published in: Elenkin, A.A. (1936). Sinezeleniye vodorosli SSSR. Monografiya presnovodnykh i nazemnykh S'yanofiseaye, obnaruzhennykh v predelakh SSSR. Obshchaya chast' [Blue-green algae of the USSR. Monograph of freshwater and terrestrial Syanofiseae found within the USSR. A common part]. pp. [1]-679, 91 figs. Moscow & Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR. [in Russian]

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Publication date: May 1936

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Gloeocapsa is Gloeocapsa atrata Kützing.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Chroococcus minor (Kützing) Nägeli.

Basionym
Protococcus minor Kützing

Type Information
Type locality: "An Brettern und Holz in und ausser dem Wasser" [Nordhausen, Erfurt District, Germany fide Drouet & Daly, 1956: 163]; (Kützing 1845: 144)

Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), smaller, inferior, lesser (Stearn 1973).

General Environment
This is a marine species.

Created: 19 September 2005 by Sandy Lawson.

Last updated: 24 January 2024

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Luka Sato in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 24 January 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 29 March 2024

 
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