Pseudoscourfieldia

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

Pseudoscourfieldia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Pseudoscourfieldiophyceae
Order:	Pseudoscourfieldiales
Family:	Pycnococcaceae
Genus:	Pseudoscourfieldia I.Manton

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

• Pseudoscourfieldia marina (J.Throndsen) Manton, 1975

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