Amphikrikos Korshikov, 1953

Holotype species: Amphikrikos minutissimus Korshikov

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: Cells solitary, short-cylindrical, barrel-shaped, ellipsoid to broadly oval, with rounded poles, usually without a mucilage envelope (if present, the envelope thin and structure-less), 3-13 x 2-9 µm. Cell wall smooth and colorless other than for dark-brown incrustations on the surface which appear rather regularly distributed mostly at the poles and in the equatorial region and as longitudinal ribs. Chloroplast single, parietal with (?or without) pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by (2)-4-(8) autospores which are released upon dissolution of the mother cell wall. Flagellated stages and sexual reproduction unknown. Amphikrikos planktonic, reported from Cuba, Czechoslovakia, England, France(?), Germany, India, Ivory Coast, Russia, Ukraine and United States.

Information contributed by: G. Dillard. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2018-11-21 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as masculine.

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. 21 November 2018. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024