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Name derivation:
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Classification:
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Peroniella Gobi 1887; 5 of 6 species descriptions are currently
accepted taxonomically (Guiry and Guiry 2013).
Order Mischococcales; Family Characiopsidaceae
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Morphology:
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Unicellular
epiphytic algae that often grows on desmids. Cell is ovoid, obovoid, spherical, pyriform, obpyriform, or ellipsoid. It is rounded at both ends, and
ranges from 2.0-22.5 µm long and
2.0-20.0 µm broad.
There is no pyrenoid.
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Similar genera:
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Similar and often confused with Characiopsis
of the same family, or with Characium of the Chlorophyta.
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Habitat:
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The
genus is recorded in lakes in Europe, United States, Manchuria, and Southern
Rhodesia. Attached to freshwater charophyceae including genera Hyalotheca, Spondylosium, Sphaerozosma,
Eudorina, Staurastrum, and Spirogyra; also on greens such as Pandorina and Ulothrix; and
on Tribonema
(Mohlenbrock and Dillard 1963). First
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References:
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Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2013. AlgaeBase.
World-wide electronic publication, National
University of Ireland, Galway.
http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 12 April 2013. Mohlenbrock, R.H., and
G.E. Dillard 1963. A revision of the genus Peroniella (Chrysophyta). American Microscopical
Soc. 82:329-335. online Mohlenbrock, R.H., and
G.E. Dillard. A revision of the genus Peroniella.
Trans. American Microscopical Soc. 82:329-335. |
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