Coccomyxa Schmidle, 1901

Holotype species: Coccomyxa dispar Schmidle

Original publication and holotype designation: Schmidle, W. (1901). Über drei Algengenera. Berichte der deutschen botanischen Gessellschaft 19: 10-24.

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Description: Colonies form shapeless, usually sharply defined, large gelatinous deposits at the edge, the gelatin of which is structureless or layered concentrically around the cells. Cells fusiform, ellipsoidal, ovoid to almost spherical, sometimes dorsiventrally built. Reproduction only by 2?4(?8) autospores more or less arranged a row; the sporangia wall swells and is quickly lost in the common jelly. Daughter cells remain in the gelatinous shell but are separated from each other.

Information contributed by: Beck (2002: 96, from the German) and M.D.Guiry. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-04-22 by M.D. Guiry.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Trebouxiophyceae. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 61-108. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G..

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 22 April 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024