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Pseudoscourfieldia

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Pseudoscourfieldia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Pyramimonadophyceae
Order: Pseudoscourfieldiales
Family: Pycnococcaceae
Genus: Pseudoscourfieldia
I.Manton

Pseudoscourfieldia is a genus of green algae in the family Pycnococcaceae.[1]

The genus name of Scourfieldia is in honour of David Joseph Scourfield FLS FRMS ISO (1866–1949), who was a British civil servant and biologist known as an authority on the Cladocera.[2]

Species

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Also Pseudoscourfieldia longifilis (Butcher) R.E.Norris, 1980 now accepted as Nephroselmis pyriformis (N.Carter) Ettl, 1982[3]

References

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  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Pseudoscourfieldia. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Pseudoscourfieldia I.Manton, 1975". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 23 October 2022.