Coccopedia O.V.Troitzkaja [Troickaja], 1922

Holotype species: Coccopedia limnetica O.V.Troitzkaja [Troickaja]

Original publication and holotype designation: Troitskaya, O.V. (1922). De novi genere Chroococcacearum. Botaniceskie Materialy Instituta Sporovyh Rastenij Glavnogo Botaniceskogo Sada RSFSR. Notulae Systematicae ex Instituto Cryptogamico Horti Botanici Petropolitani Reipublicae Rossicae 1: 129-131, no figs. [in Russian]

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Description: Unicellular - colonial; colonies free-living, microscopic, table-like or flat and waved, with irregular outlines, cells arranged irregularly (not in perpendicular rows in one plane (layer)), with usually higher cell numbers; common mucilaginous envelope is colorless, fine, diffluent at the margin; cells without individual mucilaginous envelopes. Cells spherical, after division shortly hemispherical, with homogeneous, pale blue-green content, without aerotopes. Cell division by binary fission in 2 perpendicular planes, perpendicular to the plane of the colony. Colony dissociation. Both species are known from the metaphyton of swamps, one from freshwater (near St. Petersburg, Russia), the second from saline localities (Turkestan).

Information contributed by: J. Komárek. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2015-03-03 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Komárek, J., Kaštovský, J., Mares, J. & Johansen, J.R. (2014). Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 86: 295-335.

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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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