Oocystidium Korshikov, 1953

Holotype species: Oocystidium ovale Korshikov

Original publication and holotype designation: Korshikov, A.A. (1953). Viznachnik prisnovodnihk vodorostey Ukrainsykoi RSR. Pidklas Protokokovi (Protococcineae). Bakuol'ni (Vacuolales) ta Protokokovi (Protococcales) [The Freshwater Algae of the Ukrainian SSR. Sub-Class Protococcineae. Vacuolales and Protococcales]. Vol. 5 pp. 1-439. Kyiv: Akademyy Nauk Ukrayins'koy RSR.

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Description: Cells solitary or in 2-4-celled colonies within a colorless mucilaginous envelope which often contains remnants of ruptured mother cell walls. Cells broadly oval, 9.7-19 x 6.5-14 &m; mucilaginous envelope up to 57 &m in diameter. Cell wall thick and smooth, without thickenings. Chloroplasts 1-2, parietal, with pyrenoid. Asexual reproduction by formation of 2-(4) autospores. Sexual reproduction and flagellated stages unknown. Oocystidium planktonic in freshwater; reported from Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and Ukraine.

Information contributed by: G. Dillard. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2014-09-02 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Trebouxiophyceae. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 61-108. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G..

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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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