Trachelomonas superba Svirenko

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 : 38

89. Trachelomonas superba Svirenko

= Trachelomonas horrida var. superba (Svirenko) Skvortsov , T. superba var. duplex Deflandre

MO: Rino 1969 [Maputo Province: Namaacha, small puddle in the bed of an almost dry stream, raro, 15 October 1968, J. Rino 340], as Trachelomonas superba Svirenko emend. Deflandre ; Rino 1972 [no description of sample J. Rino 408 in cited publication], as Trachelomonas superba Svirenko emend. Deflandre ; Maputo Province: Maputo, Inhaca Island, north of Lake Matamane, 4 June 1970, J. Rino 475-B, as Trachelomonas superba var. duplex Deflandre ].— ZA: Thomasson 1960 [Bangweulu area: Lake Chali (February 1957)], as Trachelomonas superba ; Thomasson 1965 [Lake Kariba, Songwe (now Zongwe) River (27º27’E, 17º16.6’S, May 1959)], as Trachelomonas superba .

Note. In Rino (1972: Pl. 7, figs. 15-17) all figures show T. superba cells of different age (old and young specimens), not T. superba var. duplex Deflandre. Based on unpublished data (morphological and molecular) var. duplex has been included into the synonyms of T. superba .