Fritschiella | |
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Scientific classification | |
(unranked): | Viridiplantae |
Division: | Chlorophyta |
Class: | Chlorophyceae |
Order: | Chaetophorales |
Family: | Fritschiellaceae |
Genus: | Fritschiella Iyengar, 1932 |
Type species | |
Fritschiella tuberosa | |
Species [1] | |
Fritschiella is a genus of green algae, the only genus in the family Fritschiellaceae. [1] There are two species F. tuberosa and a new freshwater species from China, F. aquatilis [2]
The genus name of Fritschiella is in honour of Felix Eugen Fritsch (1879–1954), who was a British biologist. [3]
The genus was circumscribed by Mandeyam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar in New Phytol. Vol.31 on page 335 in 1932.
Felix Eugen Fritsch FRS was a British biologist.
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