Lepocinclis ovum (Ehrenberg) Lemmermann

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 : 42-43

108. Lepocinclis ovum (Ehrenberg) Lemmermann

= Euglena ovum Ehrenberg , Amblyophis ovum (Ehrenberg) Diesing , Chloropeltis ovum (Ehrenberg) F.Stein ex Kent , Phacus ovum (Ehrenberg) Klebs , Lepocinclis ovum f. typica Deflandre , Euglena zonalis H.J.Carter , Lepocinclis buetschlii Lemmermann, L. ovum var. australis Playfair , L. ovum f. eucauda Deflandre , L. ovum var. buetschlii (Lemmermann) W.Conrad

BO: Cronberg et al. 1995 [Maxegane Pool], as L. (?) ovum (Ehrenberg) Lemmermann ).— MA: Van Meel 1954 and Cocquyt et al. 1993 [Lake Malawi].— MO: Rino 1969 [Maputo Province: Sábiè, small lake, near Maulane, next to the school of S. Jorge, abundant, 2 July 1969, J. Rino 393; same location, abundant, 2 July 1969, J. Rino 391, as Lepocinclis ovum (Ehrenberg) Lemmermann var. dimidio-minor Deflandre; Maputo Province: Namaacha, in a small pool atop the waterfall, abundant, 15 October 1968, J. Rino 330].— SA: Fritsch 1918 [Western Cape Province, Cape Town, pond in Municipal Gardens, growing on stems and petioles of Limnanthemum indicum Thw. , 13 April 1908, leg, E.P. Phillips; same location, growing on brick walls of the pond, 13 April 1908, leg, E.P. Phillips]; Fritsch, Rich 1924 [KwaZulu-Natal Province, Pietermaritzburg, quarry at Victoria Bridge, in stagnant water, 5 June 1915, leg. G.W. Bews; KwaZulu-Natal Province, Pietermaritzburg, Chase Valley, free-floating in quiet pool in stream, 22 May 1915, leg. G.W. Bews]; Fritsch, Rich 1930 [Northern Cape Province, Newlands (now Delportshoop), floating in sun in water tank, February 1923, leg. Elliott Young], as Lepocinclis buetschlii Lemmermann ; Huber-Pestalozzi 1929 [Western Cape Province, pool near Caledon, 26 September 1926], as type variety, Lepocinclis buetschlii Lemmermann var. major Huber-Pestalozzi and Lepocinclis buetschlii Lemmermann var. obtusa Huber-Pestalozzi ]; [Free State Province, vlei near Marseilles, 25 October 1926], as Lepocinclis buetschlii Lemmermann var. pascheri Dreżepolski (?); Huber-Pestalozzi 1930 [Western Cape Province, Knysna forest, pond (swamp) in Deep Walls (Forest Research), on the road to the forestry experimental station, heavily overgrown with Potamogeton and other hydrophytes, no Sphagnum , leg. G. Huber-Pestalozzi, October 1926], as Lepocinclis buetschlii Lemmermann forma major ]; [Western Cape Province, Knysna forest, Concordia Pool, a swamp about 30 m in diameter in a trough-shaped depression next to the road, overgrown with numerous hydrophytes, leg. G. Huber-Pestalozzi, 8 October 1926]; Rich 1932 [Gauteng Province, Roodepoort, Florida Lake, six monthly samples from July 1927 to January 1928, April and May 1929, leg. J. Schuurman; North-West Province, Potchefstroom Dam, 1 October 1927, leg. J. Schuurman], as Lepocinclis ovum (Ehrenberg) Lemmermann forma.

Note. In Rino (1969), illustrations in Pl. 3, figs 1 & 3 is of L. ovum , but figs. 2 & 4 is L. gracillicauda (Deflandre) Zakryś & Łukomska in Łukomska-Kowalczyk et al. 2020a. Based on molecular data no varieties exist for Lepocinclis ovum , therefore all varieties described in Huber-Pestalozzi (1929) are included into the type of Lepocinclis ovum .