Chrysosporum E.Zapomelová, O.Skaácelová, P.Pumann, R.Kopp & E.Janecek, 2012

Holotype species: Chrysosporum bergii (Ostenfeld) E.Zapomelová, O.Skácelová, P.Pumann, R.Kopp & E.Janecek

Original publication and holotype designation: Zapomelová, E., Skácelová, O., Pumann, P., Kopp, R. & Janecek, E. (2012). Biogeographically interesting planktonic Nostocales (Cyanobacteria) in the Czech Republic and their polyphasic evaluation resulting in taxonomic revisions of Anabaena bergii Ostenfeld 1908 (Chrysosporum gen. nov.) and A. tenericaulis Nygaard 1949 (Dolichospermum tenericaule comb. nova). Hydrobiologia 698: 353-365, 3 figs.

Description: Trichomes of varying length, solitary, free-floating, straight, more-or-less constricted at the cell-walls. Terminal cells conical. Vegetative cells with aerotopes, cylindrical, compressed during division. Heterocytes only intercalary, solitary, spherical, or slightly elongated. Akinetes widely ovoid (length:width ratio 1.2–2.5), with brownish or yellow–brown epispore, distant heterocytes.

Origin of description: this description is from the original publication; it may have been modified slightly. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-03-06 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.

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.

Comments: Planktonic in stagnant freshwater, usually sandpit lakes, halophilic lakes, reservoirs with higher conductivity, relict-lakes and estuaries of big rivers (Danube, Don).

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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. 06 March 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 18 April 2024