Protococcus turgidus Kützing 1846

Publication Details
Protococcus turgidus Kützing 1846: 5, pl. 6 [top figure left, alpha chalybaeus, right beta fuscescens]

Published in: Kützing, F.T. (1846). Tabulae phycologicae; oder, Abbildungen der Tange. Vol. I, fasc. 1 pp. 1-8, pls 1-10. Nordhausen: Gedruckt auf kosten des Verfassers (in commission bei W. Köhne).

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Publication date: January 1846

Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Protococcus is Protococcus kermesinus (Wrangel) C.Agardh.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Chroococcus turgidus (Kützing) Nägeli.

Source of Synonymy
Nägeli, C. (1849). Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschriften der Allg. Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 10(7): i-viii, 1-139, pls I-VIII.

Type Information
Type locality: ‘"Zwischen Oscillarieen und Lyngbyeen’" [Freidburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany fide Drouet & Daily, 1956: 70]); (Silva & al. 1996: 13) Holotype: L; (INA 1996)

Created: 13 February 2001 by Sandy Lawson.

Last updated: 05 May 2022

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