| Merismopedia | |
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| Merismopedia sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Cyanobacteria |
| Class: | Cyanophyceae |
| Order: | Synechococcales |
| Family: | Merismopediaceae |
| Genus: | Merismopedia Meyen, 1839[1] |
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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]
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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.