Zooxanthella nutricula K.Brandt 1881
Publication Details
Zooxanthella nutricula K.Brandt 1881: 24
Published in: Brandt, K. (1881). Ueber das Zusammenleben von Thieren und Algen. Verhandlungen der Physiologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 1881-1882: 22-26, 3 figs.
Request PDFPublication date: 2. December 1881
Type Species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Zooxanthella.
Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Type Information
Neotype locality: Bay of Villefranche-sur Mer (France), Western Mediterranean Sea; (Probert & al. 2014: 397) Neotype: Fig.2 (Probert et al., 2014): RCC (Roscoff Culture Collection); authentic culture strain: RCC3387 (Probert & al. 2014: 397) Notes: in radiolarian Collozoum inerme geographic locality not given (INA).
General Environment
This is a marine species.
Created: 26 April 2002 by M.D. Guiry.
Last updated: 27 April 2018
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Nomenclatural notes
LaJeunesse (2017: 1110): "Loeblich and Sherley (1979) argued that the name Symbiodinium was a subjective synonym of Zooxanthella and made the combination Zooxanthella microadriatica, also invalid. However, they failed to realize that the dinoflagellates living in symbiosis with pelagic radiolarians, originally named Zooxanthella by Brandt (Krueger 2017), were dissimilar to the symbionts found in cnidarians. Probert et al. (2014) showed definitively that dinoflagellates associated with many polycystine radiolarians, including Collozoum inerme examined by Brandt 1881, are members of the order Peridiniales, and thus extremely divergent from Symbiodinium in the order Suessiales." - (13 March 2018) - M.D. Guiry
Z. nutricula Brandt 1882: 140 (Probert et al. 2014: 397). - (22 May 2014) - G.M. Guiry
Habitat note
Symbiont of Collozoum inerme (Banaszak et al. 1993). - (22 May 2012) - G.M. Guiry
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 27 April 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 09 April 2025
