Wittrockiella amphibia

Wittrockiella amphibia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cladophorales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Chlorophyta Subphylum: Chlorophytina Classis: Ulvophyceae Ordo: Cladophorales

Familia: Pithophoraceae
Genus: Wittrockiella
Species: Wittrockiella amphibia

Name

Wittrockiella amphibia (Collins) C.Boedeker & G.I.Hansen, 2010: 354

• Type locality: Alameda, San Francisco Bay, California.
• Holotype: W.J.V. Osterhout & N.L. Gardner; 26 September 1903; on damp ground among Salicornia; IT; UC472617. Isotypes: Leiden, L1284, L2989. (Exsiccatae Phycotheca Boreali-Americana No. 1284).

Synonyms

• Basionym
• Cladophora amphibia Collins 1907: 200
• Heterotypic
• Wittrockiella paradoxa Wille, 1909: 220
  • Type locality: S. Norway: bei Lyngör [Lyngør], in brackish water.
  • Type: supralittoral pool subject to fresh water influence.

References

• Boedeker, C. & Hansen, G.I. 2010. Nuclear rDNA sequences of Wittrockiella amphibia (Collins) comb. nov. (Cladophorales, Chlorophyta) and morphological characterization of the mat-like growth form. Botanica Marina 53(4): 351–356. DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2010.040 Reference page. 
• Collins, F.S. 1907. Some new green algae. Rhodora 9: 197–202. BHL Reference page. 
• Wille, N. 1909. Algologische Notizen XV. Über Wittrockiella nov. gen. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 47: 209–225, 4 pls. BHL Reference page. 

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