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Genus of algae

Tetradesmus
Tetradesmus wisconsinensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Chlorophyceae
Order: Sphaeropleales
Family: Scenedesmaceae
Genus: Tetradesmus
G.M.Smith
Type species
Tetradesmus wisconsinensis
G.M.Smith
Species

Tetradesmus is a genus of green algae in the family Scenedesmaceae. Species of Tetradesmus are found in a variety of habitats, including fresh water and biological soil crusts in deserts.

Taxonomy

The genus Tetradesmus was described by Gilbert Morgan Smith, containing the single species Tetradesmus wisconsinensis. It was not universally accepted; Robert Hippolyte Chodat synonymized the genus into Scenedesmus, while George Stephen West accepted the genus as separate from Scenedesmus.

In the 2000s, molecular data revealed found that Scenedesmus was polyphyletic. Scenedesmus was subsequently split up into several genera, corresponding to the former subgenera Scenedesmus, Desmodesmus, and Acutodesmus. As Tetradesmus species are phylogenetically closely related to species once placed in Scenedesmus subgenus Acutodesmus, the genus Acutodesmus was raised to genus rank and Tetradesmus was placed as a synonym of Acutodesmus. However, since the name Tetradesmus was published before the genus combination Acutodesmus was made, this meant that the name Tetradesmus had priority Therefore, species in Acutodesmus were renamed to Tetradesmus.

References

  1. Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Tetradesmus G.M.Smith, 1913". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  2. See the NCBI webpage on Tetradesmus. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  3. Terlova, Elizaveta F.; Lewis, Louise A. (2019). "A new species of Tetradesmus (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) isolated from desert soil crust habitats in southwestern North America". Plant and Fungal Systematics. 64: 25–32. doi:10.2478/pfs-2019-0004. S2CID 198490845.
  4. ^ Turiel, Sara; Garrido-Cardenas, Jose Antonio; Gómez-Serrano, Cintia; Acién, Francisco Gabriel; Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo; Blanco, Saúl (2021). "A Polyphasic Characterisation of Tetradesmus almeriensis sp. nov. (Chlorophyta: Scenedesmaceae)". Processes. 9 (11): 2006. doi:10.3390/pr9112006. hdl:10835/13068.
  5. Turiel, Sara; Garrido-Cardenas, Jose Antonio; Gómez-Serrano, Cintia; Acién, Francisco Gabriel; Carretero-Paulet, Lorenzo; Blanco, Saúl (2021). "A Polyphasic Characterisation of Tetradesmus almeriensis sp. nov. (Chlorophyta: Scenedesmaceae)". Processes. 9 (11): 2006. doi:10.3390/pr9112006. hdl:10835/13068.
  6. Wynne, Michael J.; Hallan, Joel K. (2015). "Reinstatement of Tetradesmus G. M. Smith (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta)". Feddes Repertorium. 126 (3–4): 83–86. doi:10.1002/fedr.201500021.
Taxon identifiers
Tetradesmus


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