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Type: Article
Published: 2019-05-08
Page range: 295–300
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Morphology of Chrysastrella paradoxa stomatocysts from the Subpolar Urals (Russia) with comments on related morphotypes

Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences, Yaroslavl, Nekouz, Borok 152742, Russia Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanical Street 35, 127276, Moscow, Russia
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar RU-KO-167982, Russia
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar RU-KO-167982, Russia
Algae chrysophytes stomatocysts Chrysastrella paradoxa “Yugyd va” National Park Subpolar Ural Russia

Abstract

For many years Chrysastrella Chodat has been a cyst genus but recently it has been re-instated and re-defined. Currently, Chrysastrella contains Ochromonas-like flagellates including O. tuberculata Hibberd which was synonymized with the type species, Chrysastrella paradoxa Chodat. A mass development of stomatocysts, which we identified as Ch. paradoxa, was observed in a bog on the territory of “Yugyd va” National Park (the Subpolar Urals, Russia). The morphology of stomatocysts was studied by scanning electron microscopy and compared with previously described similar morphotypes. Stomatocysts #80 Hansen, #1 Wołowski & Płachno and #4 Bai & Chen seem to be identical to Chrysastrella paradoxa stomatocysts and we propose to reduce them to synonymy.