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Komvophoron

Generic name: KOMVOPHORON Anagnostidis et Komárek, 1988. Algolog. Stud. 50-53: 372.
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Diagnosis:
Type species: Komvophoron schmidlei(Jaag) Anagnostidis et Komarek 1988.
Descriptions:
Komárek (1992): Filamentous; filaments (trichomes) solitary or agglomerated in clusters or in fine, mucilaginous colonies (mats), straight or slightly waved or arcuated, moniliform, simple, short or (rarely) long (up to 650 um), without firm sheaths, sometimes with very fine, diffluent, colourless, narrow mucilaginous envelope (staining !); trichomes deeply and widely constricted, not attenuated towards the ends, with indistinct motility (trembling). Cells more or less spehrical or barrel-shaped, up to 10 μm wide, without gas vesicles, sometimes with irregularly dispersed prominent granules; end cells rounded (subg. Abys- sophoron) or with conical outer
cell walls (subg. Komvophoron).
Genotype differences, molecular data:
Reproduction strategies, life cycles, cell division:
Komárek (1992): Cell division perpendicularly to the longer trichome axis, cells grow into the original shape and size before the next division. Reproduction by disintegration of trichomes without necridic cells; trichomes disintegrate regularly +/- in their middle after they reach a distinct length. Hormocytes germinate at both sides (isopolar).
Ultrastructure:
Taxonomic position, higher hierarchy:
Cyanophyceae, Oscillatoriales, Borziaceae
Notes to taxonomy, misinterpretations:
Ecology, ecophysiology, ecological significance:
Komárek (1992): Mainly benthic species, living solitary or in fine mats on the sandy or muddy bottom of unpolluted lakes, pools, small water reservoirs and streams, in metaphyton on plants, rarely in plankton (particularly tychoplankton). Two species are known from thermal and mineral springs, one is endogloeic (grows in the mucilage of other planktic cyanophytes). Distribution not well known; different species have probably the limited ecological demands and areas of distribution.
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Infrageneric scheme, species concept:
List of species:
subgenus Alyssophoron (apical cells rounded)
Komvophoron bourrellyi Turon, Hernández-Mariné et Catalan 1991. Archiv für Hydrobiologie/Algological Studies 64: 251
Komvophoron breve (Carter) Anagnostidis 2001
Komvophoron groenlandicum Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988
Komvophoron jovis (Copeland) Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988
Komvophoron minutum (Skuja) Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988

subgenus Komvophoron (apical cells spherical-conical)
Komvophoron anabaenoides (Jao et Lee) Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988
Komvophoron apiculatum Turicchia, Ventura, Komárková et Komárek 2009. Nova Hedwigia 89(1-2): 177

Komvophoron constrictum (Szafer) Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988
Komvophoron crassum (Vozžennikova) Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988
Komvophoron epiphyticum Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988
Komvophoron halobium Anagnostidis 2001
Komvophoron hindakii Hašler et Poulíčková 2010. Biologia 65(1): 9
Komvophoron pallidum (Skuja) Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988
Komvophoron rostratum Turicchia, Ventura, Komárková et Komárek 2009. Nova Hedwigia 89(1-2): 177

Komvophoron schmidlei (Jaag) Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988
Komvophoron siderophilum (Skuja) Anagnostidis et Komárek 1988
Komvophoron skujae Anagnostidis 2001

Unclear taxa:
Ad Alyssophoron
Borzia starkii Schiller 1954
Isocystis pallida Voronichin 1927 (sensu Anagnostidis 1961)
Oscillatoria minutissima Gonzalez Guerrero 1947
Phormidium groesbeckianum Drouet 1942
Phormidium hormoides Setchell et Gardner in Gardner 1919
Pseudanabaena catenata sensus Kann 1978

Ad Komvophoron
Phormidium mucicola sensu Frémy 1949
Pseudanabaena catenata sensu Rino 1972

Komvophoron-like type with elongated, pinted and bent end cells
Oscillatoria ? sp. sensu Liebetanz 1926
Oscillatoria laetevirens sensu Gonzalez Guerrero 1947
Oscillatoria salina var.  boeticaGonzalez Guerrero 1947

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  2.1 taxonomy: Anagnostidis & Komárek 1988, Komárek 1992, Komárek & Anagnostidis 2005
  2.2 cytomorphology:
  2.3 16S rRNA sequencing:
  2.4 biology and life cycles:
  2.5 ecology: