Schizonema microcephalum (Kützing) Kuntze 1898

Publication Details
Schizonema microcephalum (Kützing) Kuntze 1898: 553

Published in: Kuntze, O. (1898). Revisio generum plantarum. Vol. 3(3) pp. 1-576. Leipzig, London, Milan, New York, Paris: Arthur Felix, Dulau & Co., U. Hoepli, Gust. E. Stechert, Charles Klincksieck.

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Publication date: 28 September 1898

Type Species
A type species for this genus does not appear to have been designated.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Achnanthidium minutissimum (Kützing) Czarnecki.

Basionym
Achnanthidium microcephalum Kützing

Type Information
Type locality: "durch ganz Europa" [throughout Europe including Nordhausen, Hamburg, Schleusingen, Halle, Stuttgart, Berlin (Germany), Thun (Switzerland), Triest, Genua (Italy), Falaise (France)]; (Kützing 1844: 75) Notes: "The type material of A. microcephalum was previously illustrated by Lange-Bertalot & Ruppel [1980 (Herb. Kützing, no. 287, from Triest), pl. 3, figs 83–96 (LM), pl. 9, figs 278–281 (SEM)]; Lange-Bertalot & Krammer [1989 (syntype, Herbar Kützing 836, from Zürich), pl. 51, fig. 12 (LM)]; Potapova & Hamilton [2007 (isotype slide BM 18434 made of Kützing’s material from Triest, Natural History Museum, London), pl. 4, figs n, o (LM)]." (Novais & al. 2015: 111). It is not clear if the material from Trieste has been formally designated as lectotype.

Origin of Species Name
Adjective A (Latin), little head.

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Created: 19 June 2011 by Salvador Valenzuela Miranda.

Last updated: 19 June 2011

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Salvador Valenzuela Miranda in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 19 June 2011. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 07 January 2025

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