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Home / Charophyceae / Desmids / Unicells / Placoderm /Amscottia |
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Name derivation:
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Classification: |
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Amscottia Grönblad 1954; each of 2 species is currently accepted taxonomically (Guiry and Guiry 2013).Order Desmidiales; Family Desmidiaceae
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Morphology:
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Large unicells 92-189µm long (including ‘arms’) with a narrow isthmus between hemicells. Each hemicell has two whorls of ‘arms’, a ‘basal’ whorl with 10 arms and a subapical whorl with 6 arms (A. mira) or a single whorl of arms of 8-10 arms curved toward one end of the cell.
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Habitat: |
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Freshwater plankton. Reported only from Brazil (A. mira) and Northern Territory, Australia (A. gulungulana). |
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References:
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Grönblad, R. 1954. Amscottia Gronbl. nom. nov.Botaniska Notiser 1954: 433. Guiry, M.D. and Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 15 January 2013. |
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