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Monomorphina pyrum (Ehrenberg) Mereschkowsky 1877

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Protozoa
Subkingdom Eozoa
Infrakingdom Euglenozoa
Phylum Euglenophyta
Subphylum Euglenoida
Infraphylum Dipilida
Superclass Spirocuta
Class Euglenophyceae
Subclass Euglenophycidae
Order Euglenales
Family Euglenaceae
Subfamily Euglenoideae
Genus Monomorphina

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Fishing Lake, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, UK. 20 Oct 2016. C.F.Carter. © C.F.Carter(chris.carter'at'6cvw.freeuk.com.

Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, UK.. 14 Sep 2011. © C.F.Carter (chris.carter@6cvw.freeuk.com).

Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; pond, 1000x, DIC. 26 Apr 2008. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; pond, 400x, DIC. 26 Apr 2008. Karl Bruun. © Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net).

Monomorphina pyrum (Ehrenberg) Mereschkowsky Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA; pond, 400x, DIC
© Karl Bruun (skogenman@earthlink.net)

Publication details
Monomorphina pyrum (Ehrenberg) Mereschkowsky 1877: 295, 296, pl. 2: fig. 21

Published in: Mereschkowsky, K.S. (1877). Etjudy nad prostejsimi zivotnymi severa Rossii. Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskago Obshchestva Estestvoisptatele 8(2): 1-299.

Type species
This is the type species (holotype) of the genus Monomorphina.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Euglena pyrum Ehrenberg

Type information
Type locality: Germany: Berlin (INA 1996). Lectotype: fig. V in Ehrenberg: Permanently preserved material of strain ACOI 2778 (cells in resin, for EM); figs 1, a-d and 2, j-l (epitype) Herbariumof the Department of Plant Systematic and Geography at Warsaw University (Kosmala et al. 2007: 177, 178). Notes: The culture from which the epitype was described has been deposited in the Algae Culture Collection of the Department of Botany, University of Coimbra, Portugal, as number ACOI 2778 and in the Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne (CCAC), Germany (Kosmala et al. 2007: 178, 179).

Origin of species name
Noun (Latin), pear (Brown 1946).

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Euglena pyrum Ehrenberg 1832
Lepocinclis pyrum (Ehrenberg) Perty 1852
Phacus pyrum (Ehrenberg) W.Archer 1871

Habitat notes
Rivers, lakes, swamps, ditches, ponds and saltwater; recorded as indicator of moderately to strongly polluted water (Valadez et al. 2010, citing various sources). - (4 Jan 2011) - G.M. Guiry

General environment
This is a freshwater species.

Description
Emended by Kosmala & Zakrys, 2007: 177 and by Kim et al. (2013:88).

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Key references
Araujo, G.J.M. & Bicudo, C.E.M. (2018). Flora ficológica do Estado de São Paulo. Vol. 6. Euglenophyceae. pp. [i]-viii, [1]-203, plus 306 figs. São Paulo: TRiMa: FAPESP.

Kim, J.I., Shin, W. & Triemer, R.E. (2010). Multigene analyses of photosynthetic euglenoids and new family, Phacaceae (Euglenales). Journal of Phycology 46(6): 1278-1287.

Kim, J.I., Shin, W. & Triemer, R.E. (2013). Phylogenetic reappraisal of the genus Monomorphina (Euglenophyceae) based on molecular and morphological data. Journal of Phycology 49(1): 82-91.

Kosmala, S., Milanowski, R., Brzóska, K., Pekala, M., Kwiatowski, J. & Zakrys, B. (2007). Phylogeny and systematics of the genus Monomorphina (Euglenaceae) based on morphological and molecular data. Journal of Phycology 43(1): 171-185.

Milanowski, R., Kosmala, S., Zakrys, B. & Kwiatowski, J. (2006). Phylogeny of photosynthetic euglenophytes based on combined chloroplast and cytoplasmic SSU rDNA sequence analysis. Journal of Phycology 42: 721-730.

Monfils, A.K., Triemer, R.E. & Bellairs, E.F. (2011). Characterization of paramylon morphological diversity in photosynthetic euglenoids (Euglenales, Euglenophytaa). Phycologia 50(2): 156-169.

Starmach, K. (1983). Flora slodkowodna Polski [Freshwater flora of Poland]. Volume 3. Euglenophyta - Eugleniny. pp. [1]-594. Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. [in Polish]

Valadez, F., Rosiles-Gonzalez, G. & Cremona, J. (2010). Euglenophytes from Lake Chignahuapan, Mexico. Cryptogamie Algologie 31(3): 305-319.

Wehr, J., Sheath, R. & Kociolek, J.P. (2015). Freshwater algae of North America: ecology and classification. Ed. 2. pp. [1]-xvi, 1-1050. Amsterdam etc.: Elsevier, Academic Press.

Wołowski, K, & Hindák, F. (2005). Atlas of Euglenophytes. pp. [1]-136, 417 figs. Cracow: VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Wołowski, K. (2011). Euglenophyta (Euglenoids). In: The freshwater algal flora of the British Isles. An identification guide to freshwater and terrestrial algae. Second edition. (John, D.M., Whitton, B.A. & Brook, A.J. Eds), pp. 181-239. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wołowski, K., Poniewozik, M. & Walne, P.L. (2013). Pigmented euglenophytes of the genera Euglena, Euglenaria, Lepocinclis, Phacus and Monomorphina from the southeastern United States. Polish Botanical Journal 58(2): 659-685.

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