Phacus pleuronectes (O.F.Müller) Nitzsch ex Dujardin

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 : 48-49

141. Phacus pleuronectes (O.F.Müller) Nitzsch ex Dujardin

= Cercaria pleuronectes O.F.Müller , Virgulina pleuronectes (O.F.Müller) Bory , Phacus acuminatus subsp. granulatus (Y.V.Roll) Pochmann , P. pleuronectes var. triquetrus (Ehrenberg) G.A.Klebs , P. prunoideus Y.V.Roll , P. pulcher Y.V.Roll , P. granulatus Y.V.Roll , P. megapyrenoideus Y.V.Roll , P. acuminatus var. megapyrenoideus (Y.V.Roll) Pochmann , P. acuminatus var. granulatus (Y.V.Roll) Huber-Pestalozzi , P. pleuronectes var. prunoideus (Y.V.Roll) T.G.Popova , P. trapezoides Stawinski , P. granulatus var. laevis Z.X.Shi , P. trapezialis Z.X.Shi

MA: Van Meel 1954 and Cocquyt et al. 1993 [Lake Malawi], as Phacus pleuronectes (O.F.Müller) Dujardin. — MO: Rino 1969 [Maputo Province: Namaacha, small puddles in the bed of an almost dry stream, rare, 15 October 1968, J. Rino 340].— SA: Fritsch 1918 [Western Cape Province, Cape Town, pond in Municipal Gardens, growing on stems and petioles of Limnanthemum indicum Thw. , 13 April 1908, leg, E.P. Phillips]; Fritsch, Stephens 1921 [Eastern Cape Province, open vlei near Gogwana (now Goqwana) River mouth, July 1915, leg. A. Pegler]; Huber-Pestalozzi 1929 [Mpumalanga Province, vlei near Breyten, 6 November 1926]; Huber-Pestalozzi 1930 [Western Cape Province, Knysna Forest, near Harkerville, a shallow swamp about 30 m in diameter, slightly brownish water, abundant hydrophytes, leg. G. Huber-Pestalozzi, 7 October 1926]; Nygaard 1932 [Gauteng Province, Witwatersrand, Florida Lake, plankton, 10 September 1927, coll. 84, leg. M.E. Blenkiron], as Phacus pleuronectes Dujardin ; Rich 1932 [Gauteng Province, Roodepoort, Florida Lake, six monthly samples from July 1927 to January 1928, April and May 1929, leg. J. Schuurman; Mpumalanga Province, Weltevreden West Pan, 19 May 1928, leg. M.E. Blenkiron and 8 July 1928, leg. G. Evelyn Hutchinson]; Claassen 1961 [Limpopo Province, 13 miles nort-north west of Nylstroom (now Modimolle), greyish-brown deposit covering submerged stones in the spruit near drift about half a mile south west of Leeupoort Dam, in slow-running water, pH 6.2, 16 April 1954; Limpopo Province, 13 miles N.-N.W. of Nylstroom (now Modimolle), south-western side of Leeupoort Dam, greyish-brown deposit on bottom of pool next to spruit, pH 6.15, 16 April 1954; Limpopo Province, 9 miles north-north west of Nylstroom (now Modimolle), Moddernek, sides, surfaces and bottoms of furrows south of the pond, 22 April 1954; Limpopo Province, 9 miles north-north west of Nylstroom (now Modimolle), Moddernek, from a vlei about three-quarters of a mile south east of spring A, pH 6.31, 19 November 1954]; Oberholster et al. 2010 [Gauteng, Con Joubert Bird Sanctuary wetland].