Published August 7, 2018 | Version v1
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Kumanoa umamaheswararaoi E. K. Ganesan

  • 1. Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidad de Oriente, Cumaná 6101, Venezuela;
  • 2. School of Biosciences 2, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia;
  • 3. Department of Zoology and Botany, São Paulo State University, S. Jose Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Description

Kumanoa umamaheswararaoi (Baluswami & Babu) E.K.Ganesan & J.A.West

Ganesan & West 2013, p. 4.

Taxonomic synonym: Batrachospermum umamaheswararaoi Baluswami & Babu 1999b, p. 247, figs 1–20.

Distribution in India: Tamil Nadu (Manimangalam near Tambaram, Chennai, growing on aquatic grasses in a road side stagnant pond. Jan.).

Note: The Indian species is very peculiar ecologically growing in a small stagnant roadside pond and was based on a single original collection made in 1990.

Notes

Published as part of Ganesan, E. K., West, John A. & Jr, Orlando Necchi, 2018, A catalogue and bibliography of non-marine (freshwater and estuarine) Rhodophyta (red algae) of India, pp. 1-48 in Phytotaxa 364 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.364.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13703374

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
E. K. Ganesan
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Rhodophyta
Order
Nemaliales
Family
Batrachospermaceae
Genus
Kumanoa
Species
umamaheswararaoi
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Ganesan, E. K. & West, J. A. (2013) Nomenclatural changes for some freshwater red algae from India. Algae 28: 45 - 51. https: // doi. org / 10.4490 / algae. 2013.28.1.045
  • Baluswami, M. & Babu, M. (1999 b) The structure and reproduction of Batrachospermum umamaheswararaoi sp. nov. In: Subba-Rangiah, G. (Ed.) Recent Trends in Algal Research. Department of Botany, Andhra University, Waltair, pp. 245 - 254.