Chloromonas polyptera

Chloromonas polyptera

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chlamydomonadales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Chlorophyta Subphylum: Chlorophytina Classis: Chlorophyceae Ordo: Chlamydomonadales

Familia: Chlamydomonadaceae
Genus: Chloromonas
Species Chloromonas polyptera

Name

Chloromonas polyptera (F.E.Fritsch) Hoham, Mullet & S.C.Roemer, 1983: 2418

• Type locality: the Beach, Scotia Bay; freshwater ponds between peaks of Saddle Island and at Point Thomsen, Brown's Bay: South Orkneys.
• Type: H.N. Rudmose Brown; yellow snow.

Synonyms

• Basionym
• Scotiella polyptera F.E.Fritsch, 1912: 308, 327, pl. 10: figs 18-21
• Heterotypic
• Pteromonas penardii Gain, 1912, nom. inval.
• Scotiella polyptera var. polimantii Kol, 1939
• Carteria nivalis Kol, 1949
• Scotiella polyptera var. magellanica Kol, 1968

References

Primary references

• Hoham, R.W., Mullet, J.E. & Roemer, S.C. 1983. The life history and ecology of the snow alga Chloromonas polyptera comb. nov. (Chlorophyta, Volvocales). Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 2416–2429. DOI: 10.1139/b83-266 Reference page. 
• Fritsch, F.E. 1912. Freshwater algae collected in the South Orkneys by Mr. R. N. Rudmose Brown, B.Sc. of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–04. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 40: 293–338. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2024. Chloromonas polyptera. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2024-01-16.

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