Scourfieldia

{{Short description|Genus of algae}} {{Automatic taxobox | grandparent_authority = Moestrup | parent_authority = Moestrup | image = Scourfieldia complanata.jpg | image_caption = ''Scourfeldia complanata'' | taxon = Scourfieldia | authority = G.S.West | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}

'''''Scourfieldia''''' is a genus of green algae in the family Scourfieldiaceae.<ref>See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=163104 webpage on Scourfieldia]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information | access-date=2007-03-19}}</ref> '''''Cardiomonas''''' Korshikov is an invalid synonym.<ref>{{Cite book |author1=John, D. M. |author2=Whitton, Brian A. |author3=Brook, Alan J. | title=The Freshwater Algal Flora of the Isles: An Identification guided to Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae | date=2002 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | location=Cambridge, U.K. | isbn=978-0-521-77051-4 | pages=285}}</ref>

The genus was circumscribed by George Stephen West in J. Bot. vol.50 on page 326 in 1912.

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.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}</ref>

==Species== ''Scourfieldia'' contains the following species:<ref>John, David M., Whitton, Brian A., & Brook, Alan J. (Eds). ''The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles: An Identification Guide to Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae.'' Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 286. {{ISBN|0-521-77051-3}}</ref> * ''Scourfieldia caeca'' (Korshikov) J.H.Belcher & Swale, 1963 * ''Scourfieldia complanata'' G. S. West, 1912 * ''Scourfieldia cordiformis'' Takeda, 1916

WoRMS also accepts;<ref name="Worms">{{cite web |title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Scourfieldia G.S.West, 1912 |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134535 |website=www.marinespecies.org |access-date=23 October 2022}}</ref> * ''Scourfieldia chlorolateralis'' {{Au|A.G.Caljon, 2005}} * ''Scourfieldia conica'' {{Au|Schiller, 1954}} * ''Scourfieldia ovata'' {{Au|Kufferath, 1956}} * ''Scourfieldia quadrata'' {{Au|Pascher, 1927}}

Former species;<ref name="Worms"/> * ''Scourfieldia magnopyrenoidea'' {{Au|Huber-Pestalozzi, 1961}} accepted as (synonym of) ''Scourfieldia caeca'' * ''Scourfieldia marina'' {{Au|J.Throndsen, 1969}} accepted as (synonym of) ''Pseudoscourfieldia marina'' {{Au|(J.Throndsen) Manton, 1975}}

==References== {{Reflist|1}}

Category:Chlorophyta genera Category:Pedinophyceae