Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing) Nägeli 1849

Current name: Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing) Nägeli
Roundstone Bog, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland. In bogpool - 17 September 2005. Fabio Rindi (f.rindi@univpm.it)

Publication Details
Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing) Nägeli 1849: 46

Published in: Nägeli, C. (1849). Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschriften der Allg. Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 10(7): i-viii, 1-139, pls I-VIII.

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Publication date: before July 1849

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Chroococcus is Chroococcus rufescens (Kützing) Nägeli.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Protococcus turgidus Kützing

Type Information
Type locality: ‘"Zwischen Oscillarieen und Lyngbyeen’" [Freidburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany fide Drouet & Daily, 1956: 70]); (Silva & al. 1996: 13) Holotype: L; (INA 1996)

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 03 August 2000 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 30 August 2019

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Taxonomic note
Reports from marine habitats refer to other species. - (16 July 2014) - M.D. Guiry

Habitat note
A widespread species in moist terrestrial habitats, sometimes frequent among wetter Sphagnum communities and among submerged macrophytes in shallow lakes and pools of a wide pH, hardness and nutrient range, though most frequent in oligotrophic or mesotrophic, slightly humic waters, and apparently absent from eutrophic waters; also in brackish ponds and saltmarshes (Whitton in John et al. 2002). - (04 July 2012) - G.M. Guiry

Usage note
Toxic (Mohamed & Al-Shehri, 2015). - (30 July 2015) - G.M. Guiry

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 30 August 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 May 2025