| Author | Prescott, G.W. |
| Year | 1979 |
| Title | How To Know the Freshwater Algae |
| ISBN | 0 697 0754-7 |
| Series | The Pictured Key Nature Series |
| Type | Book/Report |
| How Complete | Genera and species in the United States |
| Source | The Pictured Key Nature Series, Third edition, 293pp, Wm C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, Iowa, USA |
| Illustrations | Line drawings accompany the text |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Although the book is about American algae, most genera and species are widely dispersed so it is still of use in our area. The major part of the book consists of a long dichotomous key (going up to couplet 719 - is this a record?) with a discussion of each genus as it keys out. The index includes a pictorial glossary. The 1954 edition is downloadable from archive.org |
| Identification difficulty | Varied. Generally, the more complicated the alga, the easier to identify. |
| Website url | archive.org/details/howtoknowfreshwa00pres |
| Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For identification | Current | CYANOBACTERIA | cyanobacteria, blue-green "algae", chloroplasts | |
| For identification | Current | CHROMISTA | algae | |
| For identification | Current | RHODOPHYTA | red seaweeds | Plantae |
| For identification | Current | CHLOROPHYTA | green algae | Plantae |
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