Capilliphycus tropicalis T.A. Caires, Sant’Anna & J.M. Nunes

Berthold, David E., Lefler, Forrest W. & Laughinghouse, H. Dail, 2022, Recognizing novel cyanobacterial diversity in marine benthic mats, with the description of Sirenicapillariaceae fam. nov., two new genera, Sirenicapillaria gen. nov. and Tigrinifilum gen. nov., and seven new species, Phycologia 61 (2), pp. 146-165 : 150

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2021.2006589
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15775438
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B31D43C-6F10-5A5A-FF67-FA05FD806870
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Capilliphycus tropicalis T.A. Caires, Sant’Anna & J.M. Nunes
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COMMENT: Our material fits the original description of this species in Caires et al. (2018b) and clusters together with Capilliphycus tropicalis in the 16S rRNA gene sequence phylogenetic tree.

SPECIES FEATURES: Thallus green and entangled, mat-like. Filaments straight, 11.8–16.8 µm in diameter. Sheath hyaline. Cells light to dark green. Cells discoid, wider than long, 8.4–12 µm wide, 1–2.1 µm long. This is the first report of this species outside of Brazil.

MATERIALS ANALYSED: BLCC-M 106 ( US 227681).

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Kingdom	Bacteria
Phylum	Cyanobacteria
Class	Cyanophyceae
SubClass	Oscillatoriophycidae
Order	Oscillatoriales
Family	Sirenicapillariaceae
Genus	Capilliphycus

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