Feldmannophycus Augier & Boudouresque, 1971
Holotype species: Feldmannophycus rayssiae (Feldmann & G.Feldmann) H.Augier & Boudouresque
Original publication and holotype designation: Augier, H. & Boudouresque, C.-F. (1971). Découverte des cystocarpes de Feldmannophycus rayssiae (J. Feld. et G. Feld.) nov. gen. (Rhodophycées, Gigartinales). Bulletin de la Société Phycologique de France 16: 25-30.
Request PDFDescription: Plants form dense masses a few cm in height on corallinaceous algae in heavy surge and are very similar in habit to Caulacanthus, from which they differ in producing only a single periaxial cell, rather than two, on cells of the central axial filaments, and carposporangia in chains of two, rather than singly. The fusion cell is clearly lateral to the central axial filament, unlike Caulacanthus (and also Taylorophycus).
Information contributed by: G.T. Kraft. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2017-01-20 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Schneider, C.W. & Wynne, M.J. (2007). A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half a century after Kylin's "Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen". Botanica Marina 50: 197-249.
Comments: Distribution: The genus is endemic to the western Mediterranean and Sicily, where it occurs to depths of 25 m (Cormaci et al. 1979), another feature serving to distinguish it from Caulacanthus. Both Battiato et al. (1979) and Cormaci et al. (1979) place Feldmannophycus in the Sphaerococcaceae without explanation.
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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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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 20 January 2017. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 22 November 2024
