Mallomonas matvienkoae Asmund & Kristiansen

(Fig. 3A)

Mallomonopsis elliptica Matv., Trudy Naukovo-doslidnogo Instytutu Botaniky 4: 41 (1941).

DISTRIBUTION. — Cosmopolitan (Kristiansen 2002).

REMARKS

This species has been described from Ukraine under the name Mallomonopsis elliptica Matv. (Matvienko 1941) and later re-described and transferred to the genus Mallomonas (Asmund & Kristiansen 1986) .

The Mallomonas matvienkoae species complex is a rather diverse group of pseudocryptic taxa and several new species, namely M. lacuna B.Y.Jo, W.Shin, H.S.Kim, Siver & R.A.Andersen, M. hexareticulata B.Y.Jo, W.Shin, H.S.Kim, Siver & R.A.Andersen, M. pseudomatvienkoae B.Y.Jo, W.Shin, H.S.Kim, Siver & R.A.Andersen, M. sorohexareticulata B.Y.Jo, W.Shin, H.S.Kim, Siver & R.A.Andersen, M.pleuriforamen Siver, Lott, B.Y.Jo, W.Shin, H.S.Kim & R.A.Andersen (Jo et al. 2013), M. paragrandis Gusev (2015) and M. lamii Gusev et al. (2019a) . Both recent and fossil taxa have been described from this group.