Cocconema cespitosum (Kützing) G.S.West 1905

Publication Details
Cocconema cespitosum (Kützing) G.S.West 1905: 36 (as 'caespitosum')

Published in: West, W. & West, G.S. (1905). Freshwater algae from the Orkneys and Shetlands. Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinbrugh 23: 3-41.

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Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Cocconema is Cocconema cistula (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg.

Status of Name
This name is currently regarded as a synonym of Encyonema cespitosum Kützing.

Basionym
Encyonema cespitosum Kützing

Type Information
Type locality: "An Wassermühlen in Jütland" [Jutland]; (Kützing 1849: 61) Lectotype ("one figure on plate 25, fig. VII in Kützing (1844) (Fig. 33)"; designated by Silva & al. 2013: 122): One figure on plate 25, fig. VII in Kützing (1844) (Fig. 33).: (Silva & al. 2013: 133) Notes: Epitype (designated by Silva & al. 2013: 122): One specimen from preparation 321 IOK, at BRM, Bremerhaven (Fig. 34).

Created: 13 March 2006 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 08 November 2022

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