Bicuspidella Pascher, 1932

Lectotype species: Bicuspidella incus Pascher

Description: Solitary cells attached in central portion of cell to substratum with basal pad or inconspicuous to prominent stipe to ca 5 &m. Cells irregularly fusiform to ovoid or triangular, 18-26 &m long and 12-21 &m high, with straight to curved, rounded to pointed cell wall process at either end of cell. Cell walls smooth. Cells uninucleate with two contractile vacuoles; chloroplast single and parietal, covering most of outer surface; pyrenoids one or two; stigma in young cells. Asexual reproduction by biflagellate zoospores; 2-4 per sporangium. Zoospores with cup shaped chloroplast, stigma and 1-2 anterior contractile vacuoles. Sexual reproduction unknown. Bicuspidella epiphytic on various filamentous algae in freshwater; reported only from Czechoslovakia and Ukraine, but probably more widely distributed.

Information contributed by: D. Garbary and T. Kalina. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-05-02 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). Chlorococcales. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 232-264. 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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