Lepocinclis spirogyroides B.Marin & Melkonian

Levanets, Anatoliy, Vuuren, Sanet Janse Van, Łukomska-Kowalczyk, Maja & Zakryś, Bożena, 2025, Annotated checklist of photosynthetic freshwater euglenids (Euglenales: Euglenaceae and Phacaceae) from southern Africa, Phytotaxa 710 (1), pp. 22-56 : 44

111. Lepocinclis spirogyroides B.Marin & Melkonian in Marin et al. 2003

= Euglena spirogyra Ehrenberg, E. spirogyra var. elegans Playfair , E. spirogyra var. fusiformis Deflandre , E. pseudospirogyra Z.X.Shi

BO: Marazzi 2014 [Okavango Delta], as Euglena spirogyra Ehrenberg. — MO: Rino 1972 [Maputo City: Maputo, in garbage pool, 5 February 1969, J Rino 365, Maputo Province: Namaacha, Impamputo River, at km 48.9 d of national road N2, in the ponds, 15 October 1968, J. Rino 348], as Euglena spirogyra Ehrenberg. — MA: Moss 1979 [Likangala River draining the Shire Highlands and feeding Lake Chilwa], as Euglena spirogyra Ehrenberg ; Van Meel 1954 and Cocquyt et al. 1993 [Lake Malawi], as Euglena spirogyra Ehrenberg. — SA: Fritsch, Stephens 1921 [Eastern Cape Province, Kentani (now Centane), in pools, partly sheltered by sedges, formed by a slow-running spring, 28 August 1912, leg. A. Pegler, and in a stream, stagnant through drought, reddish-yellow deposit due to iron bacteria, 24 September 1912, leg, A. Pegler], as Euglena spirogyra Ehrenberg ; Hancock 1973 [Gauteng Province, Witwatersrand, no exact location], as Euglena spirogyra Ehrenberg. — ZA: Thomasson 1957 [Lake Bangweulu], as Euglena spirogyra Ehrenberg ; Thomasson 1960 [Bangweulu area: Bangweulu, Lake Chali (February 1957), Lake Wumba (12 January 1957) and Bwalya Mponda Lagoon (28 November 1956)], as Euglena spirogyra .

Note. Thomasson (1966) published a record of Euglena spirogyra var. minor P.Allorge & M.Lefèvre from Zambia [Lake Shiwa Ngandu (Lake Young), northern half, plankton collected at 0.5 m depth, water temp. 23ºC, pH 5.8, 1400 m a.s.l., 19 December 1963 (9.15 h), Symoens 0813], however this variety is of an unknown taxonomical position.