Phacus Dujardin, 1841, nom. et typ. cons.
Holotype species: Phacus longicauda (Ehrenberg) Dujardin
Original publication and holotype designation: Dujardin, F. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Zoophytes, Infusoires, comprenant la physiologie et la clasification de ces animaux et la manière de les étudier à l'aide du microscope. pp. i-xii, 1-684. Paris: Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret.
Request PDFDescription: Green flagellates with rigid, compressed cells, most species being very flat and leaf-shaped, often with ridges, folds or grooves running helically or longitudinally, giving the cells irregular or triradiate cross-sections; (20)35(50+) _ (10)25(40+) _m; many species with a long posterior spine, shaped like flattened spinning tops; some species twisted into flat corkscrews. Flagella, eyespot and flagellar swelling as in Euglena. Chloroplasts usually small, discoid and numerous, usually without pyrenoids; a few species (e.g. P. splendens) have large flat chloroplasts with pyrenoids; paramylon typically deposited as a few large granules (often rings) together with many small ones. Pochmann (1942) reviewed the genus and proposed the subgenus Phacus for green forms and Hyalophacus for colorless forms; the latter are treated here as a separate genus; Pochmann and, previously, Lemmermann (1901) divide the green genera into several sections (see Huber-Pestalozzi, 1955, and Bourrelly, 1970). EM studies include those by Dynesius and Walne (1975), Bourrelly and Couté (1981). Freshwater; worldwide. Emend. Marin & Melkonian (in Marin et al. 2003: 101). Emend. Linton & Karnkowska 2010 in Linton et al. 2010: 609.
Information contributed by: G.F. Leedale. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2024-02-06 by E.A. Molinari Novoa.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Gender: This genus name is currently treated as masculine.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kostygov, A.Y., Karnkowska, A., Votýpka, J., Tashyreva, D., Maciszewski, K., Yurchenko, V. & Lukeš, J. (2021). Euglenozoa: taxonomy, diversity and ecology, symbioses and viruses. Open Biology 11(200407): 1-47.
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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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E.A. Molinari Novoa in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 06 February 2024. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 21 November 2024
