Trachelomonas obtusa T.C.Palmer

Levanets, Anatoliy, Vuuren, Sanet Janse Van, Łukomska-Kowalczyk, Maja & Zakryś, Bożena, 2025, Annotated checklist of photosynthetic freshwater euglenids (Euglenales: Euglenaceae and Phacaceae) from southern Africa, Phytotaxa 710 (1), pp. 22-56 : 37

76. Trachelomonas obtusa T.C.Palmer

= Trachelomonas conica Playfair , T. lemmermannii Wołoszyńska

MO: Rino 1972 [Maputo City: Maputo, in garbage pool, 5 February 1969, J Rino 365], as Trachelomonas conica f. punctata Deflandre , [Maputo City: Maputo, in a puddle, next to the Maputo Airport roundabout, 3 February 1970, J. Rino 395-B; Maputo Province: Inhaca Island, in Tivanin pond, plankton, 2 June 1970, J. Rino 453; Maputo City: Maputo, Inhaca Island , in the rice fields, south from the airfield, 4 July 1970, J. Rino 472; Maputo Province: Namaacha, road to Matianine, in a dam, plankton, 19 June 1970, J. Rino 494], as Trachelomonas lemmermannii Wołoszyńska emend. Deflandre .

Note. Based on unpublished morphological-molecular data the names T. conica and T. lemmermanii should be included into synonyms of T. obtusa . In Rino (1972: Pl. 7, fig. 5) the illustration is also of T. obtusa , not T. conica f. punctata Deflandre.