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Limnococcus

Generic name: LIMNOCOCCUS (Komárek et Anagnostidis) Komárková,  Jezberová, O. Komárek et Zapomělová, 2010. Hydrobiologia 639: 79
Synonyms:
Diagnosis:
Komárková et al. (2010):
Genus cyanocaryoticum, cum cellulis in coloniis parvis consociates, non filamentosum. Coloniae mucilaginosae, paecipue microscopicae, natantes, lobatae vel abbitu irregulari, (1)2-ad 40 cellullares, cum cellulis praecipae distantis, irregualriter ordinatis, vel 2-4-8 indistincte aggregatae. Mucus coloniae tenuis, sine colore, homogeneus, interdum ad marginnem diffluens. Cellulae sphaericae, post divisionem hemisphaericae, aeruginosae, griseo-virides, olivaceo-virides vel lutescentes, ad 22 lm in diametro. Divisio cellularum in planos duas vel tres in generationes subsequentibus, cellulae filiales in forma
sphaerica ante divisionem sequentem crescent.

Etymology:
Type species: Limnococcus limneticus (Lemmermann) Komárková, Jezberová, O. Komárek et Zapomělová 2010
Descriptions:
Komárková et al. (2010): Cells irregularly deposited in wide, homogenous, amorphous, colorless, and diffluent mucilage, distant one from another in microscopic colonies usually of a small number of cells (2-40). Cells spherical, after division subspherical, up to 22 um in diameter, usually with gray-green, bluegreen, or olive-green content. Cell division by binary ission, in 2-3 planes in successive generations. The cells reach the original spherical shape before the next division. Reproduction proceeds by disintegration of colonies or liberation of cells from colonies.
Genotype differences, molecular
data:
 
Reproduction strategies, life
cycles, cell division:
Komárková et al. (2010): Cell division by binary ission, in 2-3 planes in successive
generations. The cells reach the original spherical shape before the
next division. Reproduction proceeds by disintegration of colonies or
liberation of cells from colonies.
Ultrastructure:
Taxonomic position, higher hierarchy:
Ecology, ecophysiology, ecological
significance:
Myiashita et al. (2003): Mainly as a symbiont in colonial ascidians. [type species]
Physiology and biochemistry:
Distribution, endemism, problematic
citations:
Myiashita et al. (2003): The shallow waters of the Republic of Palau, probably widely
distributed in the tropical and subtropical marine coastal environment.
Growth characteristics. Heterotrophic growth in the light or dark was not observed even in various. [type species]
Reference strain:
Komárková et al. (2010): Limnococcus limneticus ZAPOMĚLOVÁ 2006/4, CCALA No. 890.
Infrageneric scheme, species concept:
List of species:
Limnococcus limneticus (Lemmermann) Komárková, Jezberová, O. Komárek et Zapomělová 2010
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Literature:

2.1 taxonomy: Komárková et al. 2010
2.2 cytomorphology:
2.3 16S rRNA sequencing: Komárková et al. 2010
2.4 biology and life cycles:
2.5 ecology: