Annotated Catalogue of Scenedesmus and Nomenclaturally Related Genera, Including Original Descriptions and Figures

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Language: English with multilingual species diagnoses

This catalogue includes all scientific names published in the green alga genus Scenedesmus, and in several other genera that are implicated in Scenedesmus taxonomy, whether valid or invalid. The primary source has been the Index Nominum Algarum, a card file compiled and maintained in the Herbarium of the University of California at Berkeley by P.C. Silva. For each entry of a new taxon is given the author, the place of original publication, a transcription of the original description or diagnosis, the type locality, the type, and a reproduction of the original illustrations (in part or in whole). If the protologue specifies the institution or private collection where the type has been deposited, this information is given in the catalogue. If a Latin description or diagnosis is provided in the protologue, it is transcribed in the catalogue. If a description or diagnosis in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish accompanies the Latin version in the protologue, it is also transcribed in the catalogue. In the absence of Latin, the description or diagnosis is either transcribed in the original language or translated into English. The boundary between the description or diagnosis in the protologue and the discussion is often indistinct, and the authors have arbitrarily decided what material to include in the catalogue. All taxonomic opinions are documented by a citation.

Contents

Introduction
Taxonomic history of Scenedesmus   v
Scope and format of catalogue   vi
Acknowledgments   vii
Remarks on the taxonomy and nomenclature of Scenedesmus (by Paul C. Silva)   vii

Catalogue
Achnanthes   1
Arthrodesmus   4
Chlorella   7
Chodatella   9
Coelastrum   15
Dicellula   15
Didymocystis   16
Didymogenes   24
Enallax   25
Heterodesmus   26
Lagerheimia   26
Lauterborniella   27
Pseudotetradesmus   28
Kaphidium   29
Rayssiella   29
Scenedesmus
    Infrageneric taxa   31
    Specific and intraspecific taxa   42
Schroederiella   545
Selenastrum   545
Steinedesmus   546
Steiniella   547
Tessararthra   548
Tessarthonia   548
Tetrachlorella   549
Tetradesmus   550
Tetrastrurn   555
Trochiscia   556
Victoriella   556

Addenda   557
Literature cited   558

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