''Tribonema'' is a genus of filamentous,
freshwater 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 ...
. 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 described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of sever ...
for the genus is the species ''
Tribonema bombycina'' (
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. ]
References
Heterokont genera
Xanthophyceae
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