Pseudococcomyxa Korshikov, 1953

Holotype species: Pseudococcomyxa adhaerens Korshikov

Currently accepted name for the type species: Pseudococcomyxa simplex (Mainx) Fott

Original publication and holotype designation: Korshikov, A.A. (1953). Viznachnik prisnovodnihk vodorostey Ukrainsykoi RSR. Pidklas Protokokovi (Protococcineae). Bakuol'ni (Vacuolales) ta Protokokovi (Protococcales) [The Freshwater Algae of the Ukrainian SSR. Sub-Class Protococcineae. Vacuolales and Protococcales]. Vol. 5 pp. 439, 421 figures. Kyiv: Akademyy Nauk Ukrayins'koy RSR. [in Ukrainian]

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Description: Solitary cells not embedded in mucilaginous matrix, and attached to planktonic debris by colorless and often stratified basal disk. Cells 4.5-12 x 2.8-4.5 µm, oval, fusiform or egg-shaped, often with unequal, rounded ends. Cell walls smooth. Cells uninucleate; chloroplast single and parietal, without pyrenoids. Asexual reproduction by autospores; 2-4 (-8) per sporangium released through upper end of sporangium. Attachment disc often developing prior to spore release. Flagellated stages and sexual reproduction absent. Pseudococcomyxa in freshwater; in culture attached to sides of culture vessels, in nature planktonic and attached to debris in water reservoirs or peat bogs; reported only from eastern Europe. Genus most comparable to Chlorobion and Podohedriella.

Information contributed by: D. Garbary & F. Hindák. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2012-07-09 by Michael 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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Michael Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 09 July 2012. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 November 2024