Rhaphidium minutum Nägeli 1849
Publication Details
Rhaphidium minutum Nägeli 1849: 83, pl. IV [4] C: fig. 2
Published in: 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.
Request PDFPublication date: before July 1849
Type Species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Rhaphidium is Rhaphidium fasciculatum Kützing.
Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Monoraphidium minutum (Nägeli) Komárková-Legnerová.
Source of Synonymy
Komárková-Legnerová, J. (1969). The systematics and ontogenesis of the genera Ankistrodesmus Corda and Monoraphidium gen. nov. In: Studies in Phycology. (Fott, B. Eds), pp. 75-144. Prague: Academia Publishing House of the Czechosolvak Academy of Sciences.
Type Information
Type locality: Zürich [Switzerland]; (Nägeli 1849: 83)
Origin of Species Name
Adjective (Latin), very small, minute (Stearn 1983).
General Environment
This is a freshwater species.
Created: 12 March 2003 by Andy Taylor.
Last updated: 07 November 2022
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