Pseudospongiococcum Gromov & Mamkaeva, 1974

Holotype species: Pseudospongiococcum protococcoides Gromov & Mamkaeva

Original publication and holotype designation: Gromov, B.V. & Mamkaeva, K.A. (1974). Morphology and ultrastructure of some chlorococcal algae from the collection of algal strains in Leningrad University. I. Pseudospongiococcum protococcoides gen. nov. sp. nov.. Algological Studies/Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Supplement Volumes 10: 1-9.

Description: Solitary cells, forming loose aggregates. Cells spherical to ellipsoidal, when young, 6-8 x 4-5 µm, later to 25 µm diameter. Cell walls thick and smooth. Cells uninucleate when young, later multinucleate; chloroplast single and parietal, spongy to net-like; pyrenoids initially single and eccentric, later becoming multiple, with distinct starch sheath. Asexual reproduction by autospores; 2-32 spores per sporangium; released by tear in sporangial wall, but sometimes remaining in sporangial wall for extended period. Flagellated stages and sexual reproduction unknown.

Information contributed by: D.J. Garbary & M.D. Guiry. 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 neuter.

Comments: Pseudospongiococcum was isolated from soil; reported only from Krim in former USSR. Komárek and Fott (1983) consider Pseudospongiococcum similar to Capsochloris Dangeard, a marine alga.

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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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