Desertifilum salkalinema Cai et Li 2017
- Dataset
- Desertifilum salkalinema sp. nov. (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) from an alkaline pool in China
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Cai, Fang-Fang, Chen, You-Xin, Zhu, Meng-Ling, Li, Xiao-Chuang, Li, Ren-Hui (2017): Desertifilum salkalinema sp. nov. (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) from an alkaline pool in China. Phytotaxa 292 (3): 262-270, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.292.3.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.292.3.6
Classification
- kingdom
- Bacteria
- phylum
- Cyanobacteria
- class
- Cyanophyceae
- order
- Oscillatoriales
- family
- Desertifilaceae
- genus
- Desertifilum
- species
- Desertifilum salkalinema
description
Description: — Thallus thin, pale to bright blue green, filaments mostly densely entangled, varying in length, motility present, sheath thin, colorless, attached to trichome, not constricted or slightly constricted at the cross wall, 2.08 (±. 80) μm wide and 5.14 (± 0.51) μm long (Fig. 1), ratio of length to width is 2.20 (± 0.45). Cells cylindrical, attenuated or not attenuated at the ends, End cells slightly elongated. Cell content homogenous, gas vesicles absent, tolerant to alkalis and salts.
etymology
Etymology: — the name of the species was chosen based on the sampling environment. Habitat: — alkaline cultivated pool, Zhejiang Province, China.
materials_examined
Type: — China, saline-alkaline pond, Zhejiang Province, 6 th. July 2014.