Chloroidium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Watanabeales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Chlorophyta Subphylum: Chlorophytina Classis: Trebouxiophyceae Ordo: Watanabeales

Familia: Watanabeaceae
Genus: Chloroidium

Species: C. angusto-ellipsoideum – C. antarcticum – C. arboricola – C. ellipsoideum – C. engadinense – C. laureanum – C. lichinum – C. lobatum – C. orientale – C. saccharophilum – C. viscosum

Name

Chloroidium Nadson, Izv. Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 6: 189. 1906 emend. Darienko et al. (2010: 92).

• Type species: Chloroidium kruegeri Nadson, nom. illeg. = Chloroidium saccharophilum (W.Krüger) Darienko, Gustavs, Mudimu, Menendez, Schumann, Karsten, Friedl & Proschold

Synonyms

• Replaced synonym
  • Chlorothecium Krüger 1894: 252, nom. illeg. (later homonym of Chlorothecium Borzì 1885).
• Heterotypic
  • Glaphyrella Kalina, 1996, nom. inval. (no Latin diagnosis, type species not cited)
  • Parachloroidium Neustupa & Škaloud, 2013
    • Type species: Parachloroidium laureanum Neustupa & Škaloud

References

Primary references

• Nadson, G. 1906. K morfologii nizshykh vodorosley (Predvaritelnoe soobshchenie) [To the morphology of inferior algae (Preliminary communication)]. Bulletin du Jardin Impérial Botanique de St.-Pétersbourg 6(5–6): 184–194. Reference page. 
• Krüger, W. 1894. Kurze Charakteristik einiger niederer Organismen im Saftflusse der Laubbäume. Hedwigia 33: 241–266. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Darienko, T., Gustavs, L., Mudimu, O., Menendez, C.R., Schumann, R., Karsten, U., Friedl, T. & Pröschold, T. 2010. Chloroidium, a common terrestrial coccoid green alga previously assigned to Chlorella (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta). European Journal of Phycology 45(1): 79–95. Reference page. 
• Neustupa, J., Němcová, Y., Veselá, J., Steinová, J. & Škaloud, P. 2013. Parachloroidium gen. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta), a novel genus of coccoid green algae from subaerial corticolous biofilms. Phycologia 52(5): 411–421. DOI: 10.2216/13-142.2 Reference page. 

Links

• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2022. Chloroidium. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2022-04-25.