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Cyanidium Geitler and the related genera Cyanidioschyzon De Luca, Taddei & Varano and Galdieria Merola are typical representatives of hot, acidic ecosystems; a large amount of data concerning their biology has accumulated over the last decades. The genus Cyanidium was, however, also reported by several authors from non thermal, non acidic habitats such as limestone caves. The taxonomic position of this enigmatic aerophytic alga, called ‘cave Cyanidium’ in the following, is not resolved; in this chapter the literature data will be reviewed and some recently obtained (preliminary) results on its ultrastructure and ecophysiology will be presented.
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Hoffmann, L. (1994). Cyanidium-like algae from caves. In: Seckbach, J. (eds) Evolutionary Pathways and Enigmatic Algae: Cyanidium caldarium (Rhodophyta) and Related Cells. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0882-9_13
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