Watanabea lichenicola

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Watanabeaceae
Genus: Watanabea
Species: Watanabea lichenicola

Name

Watanabea lichenicola Chiva, Dumitru, Bordenave & Barreno, 2021: 231, figs 3 a-m, 4 a-c

• Type locality: Titulcia, Madrid, Spain.
• Holotype: Barreno, Chiva, Molins & Salvà; 2012-02-24; Isolated from Buellia zoharyi Galun, collected on Miocene gypsum soils, altitude 521 m.a.s.l., upper mesomediterranean low dry bioclimatic belt; ASUV 142 (Symbiotic Algal collection at the Universitat de València); Cryopreserved cells of strain MT27.C3.
• Note: Reference strains: ASUV 142 and ACOI 3418, deposited at the Coimbra Collection of Algae (ACOI), University of Coimbra. Iconotype: Figs 3(a–m), 4.

References

Primary references

• Chiva, S., Dumitru, C., Bordenave, C.D. & Barreno, E. 2021. Watanabea green microalgae (Trebouxiophyceae) inhabiting lichen holobiomes: Watanabea lichenicola sp. nova. Phycological Research 69(4): 226–236. DOI: 10.1111/pre.12463 Reference page. 

Links

• Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2022. Watanabea lichenicola. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Accessed 2022-04-26.