Elakatothrix
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Viridiplantae
(unranked): Charophyta
Class: Klebsormidiophyceae
Order: Klebsormidiales
Family: Elakatotrichaceae
Genus: Elakatothrix
Wille, 1898
Type species
Elakatothrix gelatinosa
Wille, 1898
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Atractinium Zacharias 1903
  • Fusola Snow 1903

Elakatothrix is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Klebsormidiophyceae.[1]

Etymology

Genus name Elakatothrix is composed of elakato- prefix, "spindle", and –thrix suffix, "thread", literally "spindle thread",[2] in reference to the tapered shape of individual cell of the colonial algae.

List of species

  • E. auae Setchell 1924
  • E. acuta Pascher 1915
  • E. alpina Beck-Mannagetta 1926
  • E. americana Wille 1899
  • E. arvernensis Chodat & Chodat 1925
  • E. bifurcata Kant & Gupta 1998
  • E. biplex (Nygaard 1945) Hindák 1962
  • E. gelatinosa Wille 1898
  • E. gelifacta (Chodat 1902) Hindák 1987
  • E. genevensis (Reverdin 1919) Hindák 1962
  • E. gloeocystiformis Korshikov 1953
  • E. gracilis Hortobagyi 1973
  • E. inflexa Hindák 1966
  • E. lacustris Korshikov 1953 non Beck-Mannagetta 1931
  • E. linearis Pascher 1915
  • E. minima Beck-Mannagetta 1929
  • E. obtusata Flechtner, Johansen & Clark 1998
  • E. ovalis (Ettl 1968) Hindák 1987
  • E. parvula (Archer 1862) Hindák 1962
  • E. pseudogelatinosa Korshikov 1953
  • E. spirochroma (Reverdin 1917) Hindák 1962
  • E. subacuta Korshikov 1939

References

  1. See the NCBI webpage on Elakatothrix. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. Phycokey-Elakatothrix : read on line

Scientific references

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