| Scourfieldia | |
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| Scourfeldia complanata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Pedinophyceae |
| Order: | Scourfieldiales Moestrup |
| Family: | Scourfieldiaceae Moestrup |
| Genus: | Scourfieldia G.S.West |
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Scourfieldia is a genus of green algae in the family Scourfieldiaceae.[1] Cardiomonas Korshikov is an invalid synonym.[2]
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.[3]
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Scourfieldia. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
- ^ John, D. M.; Whitton, Brian A.; Brook, Alan J. (2002). The Freshwater Algal Flora of the Isles: An Identification guided to Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-521-77051-4.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.