Merismopedia

Merismopedia (from the Greek merismos [division] and the Greek pedion [plain]) is a genus of cyanobacteria found in fresh and salt water. It is ovoid or spherical in shape and arranged in rows and flats, forming rectangular colonies held together by a mucilaginous matrix. Species in this genus divide in only two directions, creating a characteristic grid-like pattern.[2]

Merismopedia
Merismopedia sp.
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Cyanobacteria
Class: Cyanophyceae
Order: Synechococcales
Family: Merismopediaceae
Genus: Merismopedia
Meyen, 1839[1]
Species
  • M. affixa
  • M. angularis
  • M. artica
  • M. cantonensis
  • M. chondroidea
  • M. convoluta
  • M. danubiana
  • M. duplex
  • M. elegans
  • M. ferrophila
  • M. glauca
  • M. insignis
  • M. litoralis
  • M. marssonii
  • M. minima
  • M. paludosa
  • M. punctata
  • M. quadruplicata
  • M. remota
  • M. revoluta
  • M. revolutivum
  • M. sinica
  • M. smithii
  • M. tenuissima
  • M. thermalis
  • M. trolleri
  • M. venezuelica
  • M. warmingiana

References
  1. Meyen, F.J.F. (1839). Neues system der pflanzen-physiologie. Dritter band. pp. i-x, 1-627, Plates X-XV. Berlin: Haude und Spenersche Buchandlung (S.J. Joseephy).
  2. Palinska, Katarzyna A.; Liesack, Werner; Rhiel, Erhard; Krumbein, W. E. (17 October 1996). "Phenotype variability of identical genotypes: the need for a combined approach in cyanobacterial taxonomy demonstrated on Merismopedia -like isolates". Archives of Microbiology. 166 (4): 224–233. doi:10.1007/s002030050378.
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