Diacanthos belenophorus Korshikov 1953

Publication Details
Diacanthos belenophorus Korshikov 1953: 263, fig. 217a-d

Published in: Korshikov, A.A. (1953). Viznachnik prisnovodnihk vodorostey Ukrainsykoi RSR. Pidklas Protokokovi (Protococcineae). Bakuol'ni (Vacuolales) ta Protokokovi (Protococcales) [The Freshwater Algae of the Ukrainian SSR. Sub-Class Protococcineae. Vacuolales and Protococcales]. Vol. 5 pp. 439, 421 figures. Kyiv: Akademyy Nauk Ukrayins'koy RSR. [in Ukrainian]

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Publication date: 1953

Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Diacanthos.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Micractinium belenophorum (Korshikov) T.Proschold, C.Block, W.Luo & L.Kreinitz.

Source of Synonymy
Pröschold, T., Bock, C. Luo, W. & Krienitz, L. (2010). Polyphyletic distribution of bristle formation in Chlorellaceae: Micractinium, Diacanthos, Didymogenes and Hegewaldia gen. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta). Phycological Research 58(1): 1-8.

Type Information
Type locality: Russia: Kharkov District; (INA 1996)Material cryopreserved from strain SAG 42.98 (epitype) Culture collection of algae and Protozoa, Oban, Scotland; (Pröschold et al. 2010: 6)

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 11 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 21 November 2018

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 21 November 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 November 2024

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