Neospongiococcum Deason, 1971

Holotype species: Neospongiococcum alabamense (Deason) Deason

Original publication and holotype designation: Deason, T.R. (1971). The genera Spongiococcum and Neospongiococcum. I. The genus Spongiococcum and the multinucleate species of the genus Neospongiococcum. Phycologia 10: 17-27, 21 figs.

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Description: The uninucleate cells solitary and broadly ellipsoidal to spherical. Each has a spongy plastid with at least one pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by zoospores and aplanospores. Zoospores have 2 flagella of equal length and a Chlamydomonas-like wall. Isogamous sex observed.

Information contributed by: T.R. Deason. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2013-03-01 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..

Comments: The type species was isolated from Alabama, U.S.A. soil. Other species were isolated and described from North American soils. Some species also have been reported from European soils. Neospongiococcum was separated from Spongiococcum which was found to exhibit desmoschisis. Deasonia was established to contain the multinucleate species of Neospongiococcum. Physiological and growth responses as well as secondary carotenoid formation of a number of species have been described. The presence of glycolate dehydrogenase and glycolate oxidase in several species was reported. Cell wall ultrastructure and composition has been investigated and a phycoplast was found to be present in at least one species

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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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