Sokolovia Elenkin, 1926

Holotype species: Sokolovia neumaniae Elenkin

Original publication and holotype designation: Elenkin, A.A. (1926). O novom rode i vidi sinezelenykh vodoroslej Sokolovia neumanniae mihi, otnosyashchikhsya k novomu semejstvu Sokoloviaceae mihi. Notulae systematicae e sectione cryptogamic instituti botanici academiae scientiarum URSS 4: 89-97.

Description: Filamentous; filaments uniseriate; heteropolar, not branched, solitary or in groups, attached to the substrate (=legs of hydracarines) by a small, cup-shaped sheath, narrowed on the basis into a short leg (pad); trichomes with slightly widened, rounded basis, without a heterocyte, enveloped by the short sheath, cylindrical, slightly and gradually narrowed to the ends, constricted at the crosswalls. Cells shorter than wide, to the ends to isodiametrical or slightly longer than wide, end cells narrowed, more or less conical and rounded, never elongated into hairs. Cell division crosswise to the length of trichomes. Reproduction probably by dissociation of trichomes to solitary cells. The single (type) species grows epizooically on legs of a hydracarine, Neumania triangularis. Described from central Asia, from the vicinity of Buchara, and not revised. According to Geitler (1942), it is possibly a Trichobacterium.

Information contributed by: J. Komárek. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-03 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 feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Strunecký, O., Ivanova, A.P. & Mares, J. (2022 '2023'). An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis (Review). Journal of Phycology 59(1): 12-51.

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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. 03 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 25 April 2024