Merotricha

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Raphidomonadales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Chromista Subregnum: Harosa Infraregnum: Heterokonta Phylum: Ochrophyta Classis: Raphidophyceae Ordo: Raphidomonadales

Familia: Raphidomonadaceae
Genus: Merotricha
Species: M. bacillata – M. capitata

Name

Merotricha Mereschkowsky, 1877: 291; [German translation 1879: 186

Type species: Merotricha bacillata Mereschkowsky, 1897

Synonyms

• Palmeriamonas Skvortsov, 1968
  • Type species: Palmeriamonas planctonica Skvortsov

References

Primary references

• Mereschkowsky, K.S. 1877. Etjudy nad prostejsimi zivotnymi severa Rossii. Этюды над простейшими животными севера России. [Studies on protozoa of northern Russia]. Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskago Obshchestva Estestvoisptatele 8: 203–385. (In Russian) GoogleBooks Reference page. 
• Mereschkowsky, C. 1879. Studien über Protozoen des nördlichen Russland. Archiv für Mikroskopische Anatomie 16: 153–248, pls. 10–11. BHL DOI: 10.1007/BF02956383 Reference page. 
• Skvortzov, B.V. 1968. Nota algologica II. Um novo genero de flagelado verde de São Paulo: Palmeriamonas, Genero nov., Pyrrophyta. Cl. Volvocineaea. Inst. de Engenharia Sanitaria–Sursan. Rio de Janeiro, Abril, 1968: 1–9, fig. 1–3.

Additional references

• Menezes, M., & Bicudo, C. E. D. M. (2010). Freshwater Raphidophyceae from the State of Rio de Janeiro, Southeast Brazil. Biota Neotropica 10(3), 323-331, [1].
• Skvortzov, B.V. 1972. A list of new genera and type species of flagellates and algae published in 1966–1968. Part IV. Hydrobiologia, 39(1), 1-7. DOI: 10.1007/BF00047593 . online Reference page.