Metapeyssonnelia Boudouresque, Coppejans & Marcot-Coq., 1976

Holotype species: Metapeyssonnelia feldmannii Boudouresque, Coppejans & Marcot

Original publication and holotype designation: Boudouresque, C.-F., Coppejans, E. & Marcot, J. (1976). Un nouveau genre de Peyssonneliaceae, Metapeyssonnelia (Rhodophyta). Phycologia 15: 283-288.

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Description: Plants are orbicular, encrusting, anchored by unicellular rhizoids, and completely calcified. The interiors of young thalli are Peyssonnelia-like, but towards the margins the blades become differentiated into a superior and inferior perithallus. Cells of the hypothallial layer in such cases produce a single coxal cell only, in contrast to the paired arrangement of coxal cells in Polystrata. Reproductive structures are unknown.

Information contributed by: G.T. Kraft. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-06-08 by Francisco F. Pedroche.

Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Cormaci, M., Furnari, G. & Alongi, G. (2021). Flora marina bentonica del Mediterraneo: Rhodophyta - Rhodymeniophycidae II. Halymeniales, Nemastomatales, Peyssonneliales, Plocamiales, Rhodymeniales, Sebdeniales. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali di Catania 54(384): 9-342.

Comments: Distribution: Plants are recorded from 7-m depths on pebbles in Mediterranean France.

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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.

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Francisco F. Pedroche in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 08 June 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024