{{Short description|Genus of algae}} {{Speciesbox | genus = Zoddaea | parent_authority = Borzi, 1906 | species = viridis | authority = Borzi, 1906<ref name="Algaebase">{{cite web | url = http://www.algaebase.org/browse/taxonomy/?id=5553 | publisher = AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway | access-date = 2007-09-25 | title = Genus: ''Zoddaea'' taxonomy browser |author1=Guiry, M.D. |author2=Guiry, G.M. |name-list-style=amp | year = 2007 }}</ref> }}
'''''Zoddaea''''' is a monotypic genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae.<ref name="Algaebase"/> It only contains one known species, '''''Zoddaea viridis''''' {{Au|Borzì}}.
The genus and species were circumscribed by Antonino Borzì in Nuova Notarisia vol.17 on page 14 in 1906.
The genus name of ''Zoddaea'' is in honour of Giuseppe Zodda (1877–1968), who was an Italian botanist, Plant Geographer and teacher/Professor of Botany in Messina and several other places, including Mantua, Naples and Bari. He wrote 'Flora italica cryptogamica' and 'Studi sulla flora teramana'.<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> The specific epithet (''viridis'') is a Latin word meaning "green", referring to the colour of the algae.<ref name="RWB">{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Roland Wilbur|title=The Composition of Scientific Words|date=1956|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|location=Washington, D.C.|page =837}}</ref>
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Category:Chaetophorales genera Category:Chaetophoraceae Category:Monotypic algae genera
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