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Name derivation: |
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Classification: |
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Snowella Elenkin 1938; all 7 species descriptions are currently accepted taxonomically (Guiry and Guiry 2013).Order Chroococcales; Family Gomphosphaeriaceae
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Molecular sequence: |
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Similar (91.1%) to Woronichinia based on partial 16S rRNA gene sequences (Williame et al. 2006). |
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Morphology: |
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Small spherical colonies embedded in a watery mucilageinous matrix. Spherical cells joined to stalk ends, distant from each other, variable color from pale cyano to hints of yellow or pink. Colonies replicate by disintegration into small clusters of cells or even solitary cells (Guiry and Guiry 2013). |
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Similar genera: |
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Woronichinia, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences (520 bp)(Williame et al. 2006). |
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Habitat: |
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Freshwater to slightly brackish plankton.
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References: |
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Elenkin, A.A. 1938. Monographia algarum cyanophycearum aquidulcium et terrestrium in finibus URSS inventarum. (Sinezelenye vodorosli SSSR). Pars spec. (1-2). pp. 1-1908. Moskva-Leningrad: Izd. AN SSSR. Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 04 September 2013. Williame, R., C. Boutte, S. Grubisic, A. Wilmotte, J. Komárek, and L. Hoffmann 2006. Morphological and molecular characterization of planktonic cyanobacteria from Belgium and Luxembourg. Journal of Phycology 42:1312-1332. |
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