''Tribonema'' is a genus of filamentous,

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...

yellow-green algae Yellow-green algae or the Xanthophyceae (xanthophytes) are an important group of heterokont algae. Most live in fresh water, but some are found in marine and soil habitats. They vary from single-celled flagellates to simple colonial and filamento ...

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Tribonema bombycina ''Tribonema'' is a genus of filamentous, freshwater yellow-green algae. The holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally ...

'' ( C.Agardh) Derbès & Solier. Species recorded from Ireland include: ''Tribonema affine'' (G.S.West) G.S. West; ''T. minus'' (G.A. Klebs) Hazen and ''T. viride'' Pascher.Guiry, M.D., John, D.M., Rindi, F and McCarthy, T.K. (ed) 2007. ''New Survey of Clare Island. Volume 6: The Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae.'' Royal Irish Academy.

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Heterokont genera Xanthophyceae {{heterokont-stub