Scourfieldiaceae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Chlorophyta
- Class
- Pedinophyceae
- Order
- Scourfieldiales
- Family
- Scourfieldiaceae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Scourfieldiaceae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Scourfieldiaceae
Scourfieldia is a genus of green algae in the family Scourfieldiaceae. Cardiomonas Korshikov is an invalid synonym.
The genus was circumscribed by George Stephen West in J. Bot. vol.50 on page 326 in 1912.
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.
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