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Corymbococcus
Taxonomy
Corymbococcus was named by Awramik and Barghoorn (1977).
It was assigned to Chroococcaceae by Awramik and Barghoorn (1977).
It was assigned to Chroococcaceae by Awramik and Barghoorn (1977).
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1977 | Corymbococcus Awramik and Barghoorn p. 132 |
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G. †Corymbococcus Awramik and Barghoorn 1977
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. M. Awramik and E. S. Barghoorn 1977 | Spheroidal to slightly ellipsoidal thick-walled (~ 1.5 µm thick) unicells 5-18 µm in diameter aggregated into colonies. Individuals average 12.5 µm in diameter (Fig.6). Entire colony encompassed in common unlamellated sheath. Individual cells within colonies are not enclosed by a sheath. Cell surface texture is coarsely but irregularly granular. Cell division is irregular and does not appear to follow any preferred planes of binary fission. |
Measurements
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| Reference: Vachard and Aretz 2004 | |||||