Coelosphaeriopsis Lemmermann, 1899
Holotype species: Coelosphaeriopsis halophila Lemmermann
Original publication and holotype designation: Lemmermann, E. (1899). Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific. (H. Schauinsland 1896/97). Abhandlungen herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen zu Bremen 16: 313-398, pls I-III.
Request PDFDescription: Unicellular - colonial; colonies microscopic, spherical or composed of several subcolonies, free floating, enveloped by mucilaginous, colorless fine but more or less limited envelope, without any inner stalk system, cells arranged peripherally in one layer, and "hollow" (?) in the center. Cells spherical or slightly irregular elongated, usually surrounded by their own mucilaginous envelopes, sometimes of unequal size, distant from one another, without aerotopes. Reproduction "cell division" and "division of colonies". Type species described from a lagoon on Laysan Island (Hawaii, USA), another one is not well described; the type species was not revised after the first description. Coelosphaerium chlamydocystis Skuja (1964) possibly belongs to this genus.
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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