Planktocyanocapsa

Generic name: PLANKTOCYANOCAPSA Hindák, 2002. Biológia, Bratislava, 57(4): 418

Synonyms:

Diagnosis:
Hindák (2002): Cellulae in colonias aggregatae, raro solitariae vel binae. Coloniae microscopicae, libere natantes, cum cellulis solitaris, sine tegumentis gelatinosis communibus. Cellulae cyanoprocaryoticae, sine aerotopis (pseudovacuolis), muco hyalino tectae. Mucus cellulae bilamelosus. Divisio cellularum in partes duas. Reproductio desintegratione coloniarum.

Type species: Planktocyanocapsa stagnalis Hindák, 2002 - monotypic genus

Descriptions:
Hindák (2002; for type species): Cells rarely solitary or in couples, mostly in random groups, forming irregular dense expanded aggregations. Colonies microscopic, free, irregular, to 100 um in diameter, composed of joined solitary cells, not covered by common mucilaginous envelopes.
Cells cyanoprokaryotic, spherical, (0.8)-1-1.8 μm in diameter, blue-green to pale blue-green in colour; aerotopes (pseudovacuoles) missing. Mucilage of cells wide, firm, spherical, hyaline, 4-6 μm wide, bilamellate, composed of an inner light spherical part and an outer darker part with a distinct margin.

Genotype differences,
molecular data:

Reproduction strategies, life cycles, cell division:
Hindák (2002): Cell division in two equal parts. Reproduction by disintegration of colonies.

Ultrastructure:

Taxonomic position, higher hierarchy:
Cyanophyceae, Chroococcales, Synechococcaceae

Ecology, ecophysiology,
ecological significance:
Hindák (2002): in plankton of eutrophic gravel pit lakes. Type locality: gravel pit lake Štrkovec in Bratislava, W Slovakia

Physiology and biochemistry:

Distribution, endemism, problematic citations:

Reference strain:

Infrageneric scheme, species concept:

List of species:
Planktocyanocapsa stagnalis Hindák, 2002

Keys:

List of stains:

Drawings, photographs:

Hindák
(2002)

Application technology:

Literature:

	2.1 taxonomy: Hindák 2002
	2.2 cytomorphology:
	2.3 16S rRNA sequencing:
	2.4 biology and life cycles:
	2.5 ecology:

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