Monoraphidium Komárková-Legnerová, 1969

Holotype species: Monoraphidium griffithii (Berkeley) Komárková-Legnerová

Original publication and holotype designation: Komárková-Legnerová, J. (1969). The systematics and ontogenesis of the genera Ankistrodesmus Corda and Monoraphidium gen. nov. In: Studies in Phycology. (Fott, B. Eds), pp. 75-144. Prague: Academia Publishing House of the Czechosolvak Academy of Sciences.

Description: Plant unicellular, not embedded in mucilage envelope. Cells 2-182 x 1-8 µm, straight to lunate to sigmoid or helically twisted, often with elongate ends. Cell walls smooth. Cells uninucleate; chloroplast single and parietal; pyrenoid absent or when present, compound and without stach envelope. Asexual reproduction by autospores, 2-16 per sporangium, produced in one or two parallel series; released by longitudinal or transverse rupture of parental wall. Flagellated stages and sexual reproduction unknown. Monoraphidium planktonic or attached in freshwater or in soil; reported from Europe, Asia, North America.

Information contributed by: D. Garbary & F. Hindák. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2020-03-11 by M.D. Guiry.

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

Gender: This genus name is currently treated as neuter.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Tsarenko, P.M. (2011). Sphaeropleales. In: Algae of Ukraine: diversity, nomenclature, taxonomy, ecology and geography. Volume 3: Chlorophyta. (Tsarenko, P.M., Wasser, S.P. & Nevo, E. Eds), pp. 280-355. Ruggell: A.R.A. Gantner Verlag K.-G..

Comments: Attached species without differentiation at poles. GC content of DNA determined for M. minutum at 71%. Among a group of tested algae, this species had an unusualy high level of methylation with 11.5% of the total nucleosides. Species distinguished based on cell size and shape. Genus segregated from Ankistrodesmus based on unicellular nature, and seriate development of autospores; distinguished from Keratococcus which has pyrenoids with starch envelope.

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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. 11 March 2020. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 23 November 2024