Elakatothrix

Elakatothrix
Scientific 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

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

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[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