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Epilithia

Generic name: EPILITHIA Ercegović, 1932. Rad Jugoslav. Akad. Znan. 244: 141.
Synonyms:
Diagnosis:
Type species: Epilithia adriatica Ercegović 1932
Descriptions:
Komárek (1992): Colonial; thallus epilithic, small, pulverous, thin, irregular, composed from basal Gloeocapsa-like agglomerations of more or less spherical
or hemispherical cells and radiating pseudofilamentous, short rows of cells, enveloped by common sheath; rows of cells grow all-sided, paralle1y and densely arranged and irregularly "branched". Sheaths more or less thickened, open at the apex of pseudofilaments; around cells usually own mucilaginous sheaths. Cells in pseudofilaments more or less oval, irregularly elongated or almost cylindrical.
Genotype differences, molecular data:
Reproduction strategies, life cycles, cell division:
Komárek (1992): Cells divide irregularly in basal parts of thallus and more or less crosswise in the upper pseudofilaments. Reproduction by liberation of solitary cells from the thallus and, probably, by the disintegration of thallus.
Ultrastructure:
Taxonomic position, higher hierarchy: Cyanophyceae, Chroococcales, Hydrococcaceae
Notes to taxonomy, misinterpretations:Monotypical
genus.
Ecology, ecophysiology, ecological significance:
Komárek (1992): Marine, epilithic in the splash zone of calcareous coasts; known only from the Mediterranean region (Yugoslavia - Dalmatia). Little known genus.
Physiology and biochemistry:
Distribution, endemism, problematic citations:
Reference strain:
Infrageneric scheme, species concept:
List of species:
Epilithia adriatica Ercegović 1932
Keys:
List of stains:
Application technology:
Drawings:
Komárek (1992):
Literature:

  2.1 taxonomy: Geitler 1932, Geitler 1942, Komárek 1992
  2.2 cytomorphology:
  2.3 16S rRNA sequencing:
  2.4 biology and life cycles:
  2.5 ecology: