Lysigonium varians (C.Agardh) De Toni 1892
Current name:
Melosira varians C.Agardh
Kingston, Washington, USA; Carpenter Creek watershed, Site A, estuary, 1000x, DIC - 31 January 2009. Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net)
Publication Details
Lysigonium varians (C.Agardh) De Toni 1892: 902
Published in: De Toni, G.B. (1892). Ueber die Bacillarien-Gattung Lysigonium Link. Bulletin de la Société Impériale de Naturalistes de Moscou, ser. 2 6(1): 71-75.
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Lysigonium is Conferva moniliformis O.F.Müller.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Melosira varians C.Agardh.
Basionym
Melosira varians C.Agardh
Type Information
Type locality: "Ad Carlsbad in fluvio Tepl." [Teplá River, Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, Czech Republic]; (Agardh 1827: 628) Type: LD; herb alg. Agardh packet No. 4393 (Crawford 1978: 247)
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 29 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 08 March 2016
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Citing AlgaeBase
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 08 March 2016. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 07 January 2025
