Chrysopodocystis C.Billard, 1978

Holotype species: Chrysopodocystis socialis Billard

Original publication and holotype designation: Billard, C. (1978). Chrysopodocystis socialis gen. et sp. nov. (Chrysophyceae), une nouvelle Rhizochrysidale marine loriquée. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 125(5-6): [307]-312. [in French]

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Description: Colonial with loricate rhizopodial cells connected by their anastomosing rhizopodia. Lorica spherical with a porus surrounded by a short collar. Each cell has one branched rhizopodium emerging from the porus, numerous chloroplasts. Reproduction by division inside the lorica. Naked amoebae without flagella, but with numerous rhizopodia escape and eventually construct a new lorica; the elements for the lorica are deposited endogenously. Sexual reproduction and stomatocysts not known. Marine, on silt, Ile de Chausey, English Channel.

Information contributed by: J. Kristiansen. The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2023-06-17 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 feminine.

Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Kawai, H. & Nakayama, T. (2015). Introduction (Heterokontobionta p.p.), Cryptophyta, Dinophyta, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta (except Coscinodiscophyceae, Mediophyceae, Fragilariophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Phaeophyceae, Eustigmatophyceae), Chlorarachniophyta, Euglenophyta. In: Syllabus of plant families. Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Ed. 13. Phototrophic eukaryotic Algae. Glaucocystophyta, Cryptophyta, Dinophyta/Dinozoa, Haptophyta, Heterokontophyta/Ochrophyta, Chlorarachnniophyta/Cercozoa, Chlorophyta, Streptophyta p.p. (Frey, W. Eds), pp. 11-64, 103-139. Stuttgart: Borntraeger Science Publishers.

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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. 17 June 2023. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 11 September 2024