Mougeotia is a genus of filamentous charophyte green algae of the order Zygnematales. It is a common component of freshwater aquatic habitats around the world.[2] Described in 1824 by Carl Adolph Agardh,[1] its name honors the French botanist Jean-Baptiste Mougeot.[3]
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Mougeotia is a genus of filamentous charophyte green algae of the order Zygnematales. It is a common component of freshwater aquatic habitats around the...
members of the Zygnematophyceae include the filamentous algae Spirogyra and Mougeotia, as well as desmids, which are microscopic algae characterized by symmetrical...
Spirogyra, and flat in Mougeotia. The Zygnemataceae are cosmopolitan, but though all generally occur in the same types of habitats, Mougeotia, Spirogyra, and...
contain the single species Canteria apophysata, a parasite of the alga Mougeotia. The genus was circumscribed by John S. Karling in 1971. Canter HM. (1947)...
wall (see image 2), measuring 9–11 μm in the largest dimension, seen in Mougeotia prey. It has at least three strategies of feeding: Extracting cell contents...
heterotrophic and feed on algae, notably Spirogyra but also Chaetophora or Mougeotia. When attacking, the Vampyrella organism flattens along the filament surface...
been observed feeding on species from the genera Zygnema, Spirogyra, and Mougeotia and is considered a specialist predator as its known prey is restricted...
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