Oocystis apicurvata G.J.P.Ramos, C.E.M.Bicudo & C.W.N.Moura 2015

Publication Details
Oocystis apicurvata G.J.P.Ramos, C.E.M.Bicudo & C.W.N.Moura 2015: 172, figs 1-3

Published in: Ramos, J.P.R., Bicudo, C.E. de M. & Moura, C.W. do N. (2015). Oocystis apicurvata sp. nov. (Oocystaceae, Trebouxiophyceae), a new species of green algae from Chapada Diamantina, northeast Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Botany 38(1): 171-173.

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Publication date: published on-line 31 January 2015

Type Species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Oocystis is Oocystis naegelii A.Braun.

Status of Name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Type Information
Type locality: "Type material: BRAZIL. Bahia: Andaraí, Marimbus Pantanal, Marimbus do Baiano, 12°45'053.8" S, 41°18'42.5"W"; (Ramos, Bicudo & Moura 2015: 172) Holotype: G.J.P. Ramos & C.A. Ribeiro s.n.; 9 xii 2011; HUEFS; 185389 (Ramos, Bicudo & Moura 2015: 172)

General Environment
This is a freshwater species.

Description
Cells solitary or in 2-4-celled coenobia, surrounded by the mucilaginous expanded mother cell wall; coenobium ellipsoid to ovoid, with slightly acute apices; polar thickenings curved, asymmetrical, and markedly projected; cells ellipsoid, slightly curved, 52-62-µm long, and 16-19-µm broad; cell wall smooth, with polar thickenings; chloroplasts numerous, disk-shaped, with one pyrenoid each. Asexual reproduction by 2-4 autospores released by rupture of the mother cell wall. Sexual reproduction not observed.

Created: 03 February 2015 by M.D. Guiry.

Last updated: 16 April 2015

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