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Chroococcus minutus Nägeli
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- 1. Botanical Survey of India Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Government of India AJCBIBG, Botanic Garden Howrah - 711 103 (India) drpratibha 2011 @ rediffmail. com (corresponding author)
Description
Chroococcus minutus (Kütz.) Nägeli
Gattungen einzelliger Algen 46 (Nägeli 1849). Desikachary, Cyanophyta 103, t. 24, f. 4. (Desikachary 1959). Komárek & Anagn., Cyanoprokaryota Part 1: Chroococcales 19 (1): 296, f. 391 (Komárek & Anagnostidis 1998).
Protococcus minutus Kütz., Phycologia generalis 168 (1843).
DESCRIPTION. — Cells spherical or oblong, solitary or in group of 2-4 or sometimes 8 cells; pale green or homogeneous or granular; sheath lamellate, delimited rarely a little diffluent (Fig. 8A).
DIMENSION. — Cells 4.0-10.0 µm in diameter.
ENVIRONMENT & HABITAT. — Freshwater species; planktonic; temperature 1°C.
Notes
Published as part of Gupta, Pratibha, 2021, First report of diversity of Cyanobacteria of Broknes Peninsula of Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica, pp. 241-251 in Cryptogamie, Algologie 20 (15) on page 244, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2021v42a15, http://zenodo.org/record/7819309
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chroococcaceae
- Genus
- Chroococcus
- Kingdom
- Bacteria
- Order
- Chroococcales
- Phylum
- Cyanobacteria
- Species
- minutus
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- NAGELI C. 1849. - Gattungen einzelliger Algen, physiologisch und systematisch bearbeitet. Neue Denkschriften der Allg. Schweizerischen Gesellschaft fur die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 10 (7): i-viii, 1 - 139, pls I-VIII.
- DESIKACHARY T. V. 1959. - Cyanophyta. Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, 686 p.
- KOMAREK J. & ANAGNOSTIDIS K. 1998. - Cyanoprokaryota 1. Teil: Chroococcales, in ETTL H., GARTNER G., HEYNIG H. & MOLLENHAUER D. (eds), Susswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Gustav Fischer, Jena-Stuttgart-Lubeck-Ulm. 19 (1): 548 p.