Ctenophora pulchella var. smithii H. Schönf.
Creators
- 1. The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
- 2. Research Department, Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium. & Department of Biology - ECOBE, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.
Description
Ctenophora pulchella var. smithii (Ralfs in A.Pritch.) H.Schönf. 1907: 104, 248, invalid = ??
Basionym: Synedra smithii Ralfs in A.Pritch. 1861: 786
non S. smithii O’Meara 1875: 313, pl. 28, fig. 42
A brief description, attributed to Ralfs, was given in Pritchard, which included vague locality details and the opinion that it is Synedra acicularis W. Sm. (1853: 70, pl. 11, fig. 86, see Fig. 58): ‘Frustules irregularly affixed; valves lanceolate, acute, with 36 very faint striae in. 001.” = Synedra acicularis, SBD. i. p. 70, pl. 11. f. 86. Brackish water. England’ (Pritchard 1861: 786). Smith’s Synedra acicularis (non Synedra acicularis Kütz. 1844: 63, which is a species of Nitzschia Hassall) is very likely another species of Ctenophora as has been previously recognised by O’Meara (1876: 304, as Synedra pulchella var. acicularis) and West & West 1901: 196, also as Synedra pulchella var. acicularis) (Van de Vijver pers. obs). A few slides in BM may be of original Ralfs’ material.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Fragilariaceae
- Genus
- Ctenophora
- Kingdom
- Chromista
- Order
- Fragilariales
- Phylum
- Ochrophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- H. Schönf.
- Species
- smithii
- Taxon rank
- variety
References
- West, W. & West, G. S. (1901) The alga-flora of Yorkshire: a complete account of the known freshwater algae of the county, with many notes on their affinities and distribution. Botanical transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 5: 1 - 239.