Tetradesmus dimorphus

Tetradesmus dimorphus is a freshwater unicellular green algae in the class Chlorophyceae. The name means "having two forms".^[2]

Tetradesmus dimorphus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Chlorophyceae
Order:	Sphaeropleales
Family:	Scenedesmaceae
Genus:	Tetradesmus
Species:	T. dimorphus
Binomial name
Tetradesmus dimorphus (Turpin) M.J.Wynne, 2016[1]
Synonyms
Scenedesmus dimorphus (Turpin) Kützing Scenedesmus obliquus (Turpin) Kützing[2]

Tetradesmus dimorphus consists of colonies of two, four or eight cells, which are arranged linearly or in a zigzag fashion, in one or two rows. Cells are (5–)6–25(–27) μm long and 2–9.4(–14) μm wide, broadly spindle-shaped, tapered to points at both ends. The inner cells are straight, while marginal cells have ends that are slightly curved outwards.^[3]

Synonyms[2]

Basionym

• Achnanthes dimorpha Turpin

Homotypic synonyms

• Achnanthes dimorpha Turpin, 1828
• Scenedesmus obliquus var. dimorphus (Turpin) Hansgirg
• Scenedesmus acutus var. dimorphus (Turpin) Rabenhorst
• Scenedesmus dimorphus (Turpin) Kützing

Heterotypic synonyms

• Scenedesmus antennatus Brébisson in Ralfs
• Scenedesmus costulatus Chodat
• Scenedesmus acutus var. obliquus Rabenhorst

See also

• Algaculture