| Floristic and Taxonomic Accounts of the Genus Euglena(Euglenophyceae) from Korean Fresh Waters
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| Jun-Tae Kim, Sung-Min Boo, Bozena Zakrys
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Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Department of Plant Systematics and Geography, Warsaw University
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| ABSTRACT |
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This paper contains description, illustrations and key identify 22 taxa of the genus Euglena collected from 58 sites of Korean fresh waters. Of these, 12 taxa are recorded for the first time in the euglenoid flora of Korea: E. archaeoplastidiata, E. caudata, E. granulata, E. oblonga, E. obtusa, E. deses var. deses, E. intermedia, E. ehrenbergii var. baculifera, E. limnophila, E. texta, E. truncata, and E. variabilis. Most of the members are cosmopolitan, whereas E. archaeoplastidiata, E. ehrenbergii var. baculifera, E. truncata, and E. variabilis are the rare taxa in the world flora of euglenoids.
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| Key words:
Euglena, Euglenophyceae, flora, freshwater algae, Korea, taxonomy |
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