An investigation of the genera Closterium from an artificial lake of Cascavel city, Paraná, Brazil was undertaken. The samples were collected from January/2002 to November/2003, in the lake littoral zone. Seventeen taxa of the genera Closterium were identified, where 13 of them were typical and four of them non-typical varieties. C. cynthia De Notaris var. cynthia, represented 25% of total samples, followed by C. moniliferum (Bory) Ehrenberg ex Ralfs var. moniliferum (17%). Taxa such as C. ehrenbergii Meneghini ex Ralfs var. ehrenbergii, C. leibleinii Kützing ex Ralfs var. leibleinii e C. lunula (Müller) Nitzsch ex Ralfs var. biconvexum Schmidle were less frequent in the analysis representing 3% of the taxon total records.
Desmids; taxonomy; Zygnemaphyceae
